Obol - Ardakhshir IV Pellets

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.