Hemidracma de Artajerjes II

Buenos días, a ver si podéis hacer una descripción completita. Muchas gracias de antemano.




14mm // 1,89g


Saludos y gracias

Bonito henidracma de Artajerjes II del reino de Persis, vasallo de los partos :


https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2837594

Un saludo

Gracias ben, en las descripciones ponen 1ª centuria antes de cristo, pero la fecha de vida de este señor son del 400 a.C. Iluminame please. Saludos

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No te preocupes Ben ya comprendí mi error y el que comete mucha gente, de hecho he encontrado un post antiguo de ampalab donde cometió el mismo error que yo.

Por cierto es forrada

No es el mismo Artajerjes II el aqueménida a este como te has dado cuenta.....

Por qué hay tan poca información, sobre estos reyes lo lo que quiera que fuesen. Es dificil encontrar info de Persis, y de su lista de gobernantes/reyes/vasallos...

Pues que están poco estudiados. Además es una zona muy conflictiva actualmente para poder estudiarla "in situ". También es desconocida en nuestra zona Tartessos, la época bizantina en el sur de Hispania, vándalos y alanos en la Península Ibérica, .......

Un saludo

donde puedo encontrar algo de info?. Supongo que lo poco que haya estará en inglés. Gracias ben

Muy poca he encontrado:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_II_of_Persis

Kingdom of Persis

gracias algo es algo

THE HISTORY OF PERSIS AND ITS COINAGE
by Bahram Badiyi
The history of Persis and the chronicles of its local kings are shrouded in mystery due to a lack of adequate historical records. The most well-known facts are the lineage of the Sasanian dynasty’s first king, Ardashir I, who was the son of Papak and grandson of Sasan, from whom the name of the Sasanian dynasty comes. However, the events of the preceding half millennium are mostly lost, and it is not infrequent that the extent of our knowledge comes from the information that can be gleaned from the coinage.
Istakhr, the capital of Persis and the ancestral capital of Sasanian Iran, had also served as the spiritual capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Istakhr’s importance waned after the Islamic conquest, however, and it was devastated in 659 after a brief rebellion of the local Persian aristocracy. All of the city’s vital buildings and infrastructure were reduced to rubble, including the eponymous mountain-top reservoir (the name “Istakhr” means “Large Pool”). It is likely that most historical documents and artifacts related to the history of pre-Sasanian Persis were also lost during the course of this destruction.
For nearly five centuries the kings of Persis governed the region stretching from Susiana in southwestern Persia to Sakastan, and controlled the northeastern Persian Gulf littoral. Istakhr served as an important hub in a major commercial network stretching to Sakastan and further into the Sind region. Additionally, having an extensive shore line, Persis profited from maritime trade with India and points further afield. During the Sasanian period, ports such as Rev-Ardashir and Siraf flourished in the region.
The early kings of Persis all carried the title of fratraka, which indicated their loyalty to their Seleucid overlords. The language of the early coins from Persis was Aramaic and Persian, which were the administrative languages of the Persian Empire during Achaemenid times. On the earliest issues, the iconography is fully Hellenic, beautifully depicting the facial features, clothing and scenery with a high degree of realism and competence. The headgear, clothing, and other design aspects directly relate to the ideals of Persian Kingship under the Achaemenids, and also to the official state religion, Zoroastrianism. The sacred architecture or temple shown on the reverse is very much inspired from the magnificent religious architecture of Persepolis, Naqsh-e Rustam and Pasargad. The eagle and the standard also depicted on the reverse refer to the Persian military standards and imperial symbols from the past.
As time progressed, the imagery of the coinage became more abstract and representational. On the middle and later issues, the sacred architecture and standards of the early issues is replaced by other Zoroastrian symbols. Additionally, after the overthrow of the Seleucids and the ascendancy of the Parthians, the clothing and headgear aligns more closely with that depicted on Parthian coinage. This, of course, is only natural: Mithridates II of Parthia, the first Parthian monarch to use the title King of Kings, was considered the rightful heir to the Achaemenid Persians, and he stuck a patriotic cord with the kings of Persis.
The feudal system by which the Parthians held their empire as a loose federation of various states allowed greater autonomy for many local kings and war lords. The title of king begins to appear in the later issues on and off, giving the indication that sometimes the claim to power was challenged by the Parthians and sometimes it went on unchallenged. The very late coinage of the Persis kings became the transitional series to the Sasanian Imperial coinage. Ardashir, a native son whose father and grandfather both had.

Un saludo.

Muchas gracias turdetano :)

Fotillos en mano, es preciosa

Preciosa, gran pieza! 

No se puede creer la belleza de esa moneda, qué buen estado de conservación!!!! Felicitaciones compañero!

Gracias compañeros, la verdad que tiene un tono que se sale