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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
Kandahar

Kandahar, also spelled Qandahar, is the third largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of 324,800 . 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 Greece silver coin equivalent to four Greek drachmas. It was in wide circulation from 510 to 38 BC.Most tetradrachms were minted around the middle of the 5th century BC, when they were used in transactions....
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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 of Ancient India originally formed in Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus River or Syr Darya in what is now northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan....
 conquered it.






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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
Kandahar

Kandahar, also spelled Qandahar, is the third largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of 324,800 . 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 Greece silver coin equivalent to four Greek drachmas. It was in wide circulation from 510 to 38 BC.Most tetradrachms were minted around the middle of the 5th century BC, when they were 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 of Ancient India originally formed in Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus River or Syr Darya in what is now northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan....
 conquered it.