Stater - Ardakhshir II

Ardakhshir II ruled Persis as a vassal king under Parthian overlordship during one of the most turbulent stretches of that suzerainty — a period when the Parthian Arsacids were simultaneously managing Roman pressure in the west and dynastic instability at their own court. The Persis rulers maintained striking autonomy unusual for client kingdoms, issuing gold in their own name when most subordinate dynasties were denied that privilege entirely.

The absence of Alram and Haaff reference numbers here is significant: this piece either represents an unpublished variety or has not yet been formally placed within either corpus, making precise die attribution speculative until a fuller die study is completed.