Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Agathocles 16

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.agathocles.16

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Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: early second century BCE
  • Denomination: Denomination B (double)
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Bronze
  • Shape: Round

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Type: Head of Dionysus right, laureate, with thyrsus over left shoulder

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ (orientation: ⇉) [transliteration: basileōs agathokleous ]
    • Type: Panther standing right with left paw raised, vine to right
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Agathocles 16.1
  • Type: Head of Dionysus right, laureate, with thyrsus over left shoulder
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ (orientation: ⇉) [transliteration: basileōs agathokleous ]
  • Type: Panther standing right with left paw raised, vine to right
  • Symbol (Left Field): ΑΡ
object: 1
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Agathocles 16.1A
  • Type: Head of Dionysus right, laureate, with thyrsus over left shoulder
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ (orientation: ⇉) [transliteration: basileōs agathokleous ]
  • Type: Panther standing right with left paw raised, vine to right
  • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 5 symbol, consists of Α and Ρ
object: 1
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Agathocles 16.2
  • Type: Head of Dionysus right, laureate, with thyrsus over left shoulder
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ (orientation: ⇉) [transliteration: basileōs agathokleous ]
  • Type: Panther standing right with left paw raised, vine to right
  • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 62 symbol, consists of Κ and Ρ

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British Museum: IOC.15
Collection
British Museum
Diameter (in mm)
23
Weight (in gr.)
7.620
Findspot
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Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR53769
Axis
1
Diameter (in mm)
23
Weight (in gr.)
7.83

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
1
Diameter (in mm)
23
Weight (in gr.)
7.72

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