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Hemidrachm - Pakor II Large planchet, symbol obverse
| Issuer | Kingdom of Persis (Persian Empires) |
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| Year | 10-50 |
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| Value | Hemidrachm (1/2) |
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| Reverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Pakur I facing left, depicted as an ancestral dynastic portrait in the established Persis tradition, with tiara and draped garment visible at the truncation. The reverse field is unadorned, with no surrounding border, leaving the portrait as the sole design element. The rendering follows the standard iconographic conventions of the Persis hemidrachm series, emphasizing legitimacy through the display of the ruling lineage. |
| Reverse script | Aramaic |
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Pakor II ruled Persis as a vassal king under Parthian overlordship during the first century AD, one of a succession of local dynasts who maintained a degree of autonomy in the Fars region while Arsacid power dominated the Iranian plateau. The large planchet variant of this hemidrachm type is catalogued separately from the more common smaller flan issues — the distinction matters for attribution, as Haaff treats them as a discrete die grouping rather than a casual production variation.
Persis coinage of this period circulated in a region that never fully abandoned its Achaemenid cultural memory, a fact reflected in the archaizing tendencies of the series as a whole.