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Tyler-Smith NC (2004) 36; Alram 564,567; Tyler-Smith 4 var. (To the right of the king on the back). Persis was the heart of the Old Achaemenid Persian Empire and the center of Persian culture, religion and language. At the end of the 3rd century BC, Persis was able to regain its independence from the Seleucids and began producing a Greek-inspired coin with inscriptions in Aramaic. Mithridates II was able to integrate Persis as a sub-kingdom of the Parthian Empire at the beginning of the 1st century BC, although Persis continued to mint his own distinctive series of coins which gradually became part of the appearance of Parthian coins. Persis was eventually able to defeat the Arsacids and, under Ardeshir I, found the Sassanid Empire, which would become the Rome of, and later Byzantium, the greatest enemy until the emergence of Islam and the Arab conquest of the Middle East during the 7th century AD.
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