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Obol - Darayan II King right of altar
| Issuer | Kingdom of Persis (Persian Empires) |
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| Year | 75 BC - 25 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Aramaic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Persis was not a successor state in name only — local dynasts there maintained continuous coin production through the Seleucid collapse and well into the Parthian period, asserting a distinctly Iranian identity at a moment when most of the plateau had been absorbed into Arsacid administrative networks. Darev II (Greek: Darius) issued in a region that had been the heartland of Achaemenid power, and the coinage reflects a deliberate archaizing impulse, consciously invoking older Persian royal traditions.
The obol denomination places this squarely in small-change circulation, likely within Persis itself rather than long-distance trade.