Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Antialcidas 14.2

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.antialcidas.14.2

Parent Type: bigr.antialcidas.14

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΑΛΚΙΔΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs nikēphorou antialkidou ]
    • Type: Bust of Antialcidas, diademed and draped right
    • Portrait: Antialcidas of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨗𐨩𐨢𐨪𐨯 𐨀𐨎𐨟𐨁𐨀𐨫𐨁𐨐𐨁𐨟𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa jayadharasa aṃtialikidasa ]
    • Type: Zeus seated on throne, holding sceptre with left hand and palm branch and wreath in outstretched right hand, forepart of an elephant vertically
    • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 181 symbol, consists of Π, Η, and Δ
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage