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Coins struck at Istakhr

2 catalogued coins and notes attributed to Istakhr, with weights, legends, dates and Wikimedia-sourced images across Parthian (Arsacid) Empire.

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Parthian (Arsacid) Empire · 247 BCE – 224 CE

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Kingdom of Persis – Drachm of 'Darius'

Darius II of Persis (Darayan)

1st century BCE – 1st century CE

The semi-autonomous Frataraka and later kings of Persis ruled the Achaemenid homeland under Seleucid then Parthian overlordship. Their coins preserve Persian religious iconography (fire altar, royal figure) that the Sasanians would revive and standardise.

Persis Frataraka Tetradrachm

Vahbarz / Vadfradad (Frataraka)

c. 220–140 BCE

The Frataraka ('Foremost') were local princes of Persis (modern Fars) who minted in a deliberate revival of Achaemenid iconography — the ideological seed-bed of the later Sasanian dynasty. Image: related Persis silver of Darius II of Persis.

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