Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Amyntas 8.1

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.amyntas.8.1

Parent Type: bigr.amyntas.8

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: first half first century BCE
  • Denomination: Tetradrachm
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Silver
  • Shape: Round

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΑΤΟΡΟΣ ΑΜΥΝΤΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs nikatoros amyntou ]
    • Type: Bust of Amyntas diademed, seen from behind, throwing spear with right arm, aegis over left shoulder, wearing Boeotian helmet with three plumes covered with animal skin
    • Portrait: Amyntas of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨗𐨩𐨢𐨪𐨯 𐨀𐨨𐨁𐨟𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa jayadharasa aṃitasa ]
    • Type: Zeus draped in three-quarter view left, seated on throne, armed Athena on outstretched right hand, sceptre and palm branch in left hand
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 227 symbol, consists of Τ, Δ, and Φ
    • Deity: Zeus
    • Deity: Athena
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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