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Hemidrachm - Pakor II
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 10-50 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Diademed and bearded bust of the king facing left, rendered in a style closely resembling the obverse portrait, consistent with the numismatic conventions of the Persis dynasts. The hair is depicted in layered, striated locks, and the diadem ties are shown trailing behind the head. An Aramaic inscription appears in the field to the right of the bust. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, typical of hammered silver coinage of this series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The attribution of this piece sits at the fault line of one of the more contested debates in Persid numismatics — whether the ruler designated "Pakor II" by some scholars is genuinely distinct from Pakor I, or whether the two names describe a single reign with inconsistent die execution. Alram's catalog assigns 589 to Pakor I, and the Sunrise reference splits the series differently, leaving the precise dynastic sequence of the later Persis kings genuinely unresolved in the literature.
The Persid kingdom survived as a semi-autonomous client state under Parthian overlordship, issuing its own silver coinage in a tradition stretching back to the Achaemenids — a local continuity the Parthians found politically convenient to tolerate.