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Hemidrachm - Vahshir I
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 50-75 |
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| Reference(s) | Alram#583 var. |
| Obverse description | Bearded and diademed bust of Vahshir I facing left, wearing a torque at the neck and a draped garment; long diadem ribbons trail behind the head. A Aramaic monogram appears in the right field behind the bust. The portrait is rendered in the characteristic late Persis style, with bold facial features including a prominent eye and beard indicated by fine engraved lines. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Persis — the heartland of the old Achaemenid empire in what is now Fars Province — maintained a remarkable degree of autonomy under Parthian overlordship, issuing its own coinage under a succession of local dynasts whose exact chronology remains disputed. Vahshir I is placed tentatively in the mid-first century AD, though some scholars argue for a later date based on stylistic comparisons with neighboring issues. The Alram 583 variant designation signals a die or iconographic deviation from the type specimen — in a series where many rulers are known from only a handful of examples, variants carry real numismatic weight.