Pacores
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Pacores or Pakores was an Indo-Parthian king who ruled from 100–130 AD. He is well-known from coins minted in Seistan and Kandahar
, mostly silver drachms and tetradrachm
s.
He is the last known ruler of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, but coins show one more ruler before the Kushan Empire
conquered it.
Kandahar
Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...
, mostly silver drachms and tetradrachm
Tetradrachm
The tetradrachm was an Ancient Greek silver coin equivalent to four drachmae. It was in wide circulation from 510 to 38 BC.-History:Many surviving tetradrachms were minted by the polis of Athens from around the middle of the 5th century BC onwards; the popular coin was widely used in transactions...
s.
He is the last known ruler of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, but coins show one more ruler before the Kushan Empire
Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire originally formed in the early 1st century AD under Kujula Kadphises in the territories of ancient Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus in what is now northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.During the 1st and early 2nd centuries...
conquered it.