Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Amyntas 15.4

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.amyntas.15.4

Parent Type: bigr.amyntas.15

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: first half first century BCE
  • Denomination: Denomination I
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Bronze
  • Shape: Rectangle

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΑΤΟΡΟΣ ΑΜΥΝΤΟΥ (orientation: 🠑🠒🠓) [transliteration: basileōs nikatoros amyntou ]
    • Type: Head of Zeus-Mithras (?), carrying sceptre over left shoulder right
    • Deity: Zeus

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨗𐨩𐨢𐨪𐨯 𐨀𐨨𐨁𐨟𐨯 (orientation: 🠓🠐🠑) [transliteration: mahārājasa jayadharasa aṃitasa ]
    • Type: Athena standing left, outstretched right arm, holding shield and lance in her left arm
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 244 symbol, consists of Ν, Ι, and Δ
    • Deity: Athena
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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