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Obol - Ardakhshir IV Pellets
| Issuer | Kingdom of Persis (Persian Empires) |
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| Year | 180-200 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Aramaic |
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| Mintage | ND (180-200) |
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Ardakhshir IV ruled Persis as a vassal under the Parthian Arsacids during a period when the region's local dynasts were permitted to strike their own coinage — a privilege that would end definitively with the Sasanian conquest of the early third century. Within decades of this coin's probable minting, Ardakhshir I of the Sasanians would extinguish the Persis dynasty entirely, making these small fractional issues among the final numismatic artifacts of a kingship tradition stretching back to the Achaemenids.