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Hemidrachm - Ardakhshir II
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 40 BC - 5 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Aramaic |
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| Reverse script | Aramaic |
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Persis survived as a semi-autonomous dynastic enclave long after the Seleucid collapse, its local rulers striking their own silver while nominally deferring to whoever held regional power. Ardakhshir II ruled during the turbulent final decades when both Parthian authority and Roman ambitions were reshaping the Near East, yet the Persis dynasts maintained uninterrupted coinage throughout — a quiet assertion of continuity that larger empires around them could not always claim.