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Pakor II

Pakor II was the king of Persis under Parthian suzerainty in the first half of the first century AD. He was the son of Wahshir and successor of Pakor I. He was the first Persid ruler to put his name on the obverse of his coins, some of which show a three-pointed star on the reverse, the meaning of which is unclear.

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Pakor II (or Pakur II, Greek: Pakoros) was the king of Persis under Parthian suzerainty in the first half of the first century AD.¹ He was the son of Wahshir and successor of Pakor I.¹ He was the first Persid ruler to put his name on the obverse of his coins, some of which show a three-pointed star on the reverse, the meaning of which is unclear.²

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Wiesehöfer 2009, Table 1.
Rezakhani 2013, p. 775.

Bibliography

Bibliography

Rezakhani, Khodadad (2013). "Arsacid, Elymaean, and Persid Coinage". In Potts, Daniel T. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199733309.
Wiesehöfer, Josef (2009). "Persis, Kings of". Encyclopaedia Iranica.