Tetradrachm - Autophradates I

Autophradates I ruled Persis as a semi-autonomous kingdom under Seleucid suzerainty, though the exact nature of that subordination remains debated. His reign coincided with the rapid fragmentation of Seleucid power in the east following Antiochus IV's death, which likely created the administrative vacuum that allowed Persis to issue its own coinage at all. The tetradrachm series attributed to him is sparse — Alram 542 is known from only a handful of specimens — making any surviving example genuinely uncommon rather than merely cataloged as such.