Hemidrachm - Vahshir I

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.