Hemidrachm - Nambed

Persis, the ancient heartland of the Achaemenid empire in what is now Fars Province, maintained a remarkable degree of autonomy under its own dynastic rulers — the Frataraka and later kings — well into the Parthian period. The ruler Nambed is among the more obscure figures of this sequence, known almost exclusively through his coinage rather than any surviving textual record. The Sunrise 626 reference places this hemidrachm within a tightly clustered group, and the "cf." qualifier on the Alram citation signals a die or type variant not precisely matching the catalogued specimen.