Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Antialcidas 6

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.antialcidas.6

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Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Type: Bust of Antialcidas, diademed and draped right, wearing Boeotian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; bead and reel border
    • Portrait: Antialcidas of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΑΛΚΙΔΟΥ (orientation: ↷) [transliteration: basileōs nikēphorou antialkidou ]
    • Type: Zeus seated on throne, holding sceptre with left hand and Nike holding wreath in outstretched right hand, forepart of an elephant with raised trunk right
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Antialcidas 6.1
  • Type: Bust of Antialcidas, diademed and draped right, wearing Boeotian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; bead and reel border
  • Portrait: Antialcidas of Bactria
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΑΛΚΙΔΟΥ (orientation: ↷) [transliteration: basileōs nikēphorou antialkidou ]
  • Type: Zeus seated on throne, holding sceptre with left hand and Nike holding wreath in outstretched right hand, forepart of an elephant with raised trunk right
  • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 116 symbol, consists of Φ and Ι
  • Deity: Zeus