Obol ca. 1st century B.C. Parthian Numismatists - the scholars who study coins - refer to the front’ side of the coin, which usually features the head of a person or god, as the obverse,’ and the back’ side as the reverse.’This small silver coin is in fragmentary condition, making it difficult to identify the types on it. On the obverse, a bust of the king faces to the left. He has a beard and long wavy hair, and wears a crenelated crown. The image is surrounded by a border of dots. The reverse type is all but impossible to discern, though parts of a Persian inscription are visible.This coin was minted by King Ardashir II of Persis, sometime in the first century B.C. Persis refers to a region in southwestern Iran which was the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire. Under the Seleucids and Parthians, Persis was ruled by client kings like Ardashir, who combined elements of Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian iconography on their coins.This coin was excavated at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, near Shira

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Obol ca. 1st century B.C. Parthian Numismatists - the scholars who study coins - refer to the front’ side of the coin, which usually features the head of a person or god, as the obverse,’ and the back’ side as the reverse.’This small silver coin is in fragmentary condition, making it difficult to identify the types on it. On the obverse, a bust of the king faces to the left. He has a beard and long wavy hair, and wears a crenelated crown. The image is surrounded by a border of dots. The reverse type is all but impossible to discern, though parts of a Persian inscription are visible.This coin was minted by King Ardashir II of Persis, sometime in the first century B.C. Persis refers to a region in southwestern Iran which was the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire. Under the Seleucids and Parthians, Persis was ruled by client kings like Ardashir, who combined elements of Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian iconography on their coins.This coin was excavated at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, near Shira

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