Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Antiochus Nicator 4.2

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.antiochus_nicator.4.2

Parent Type: bigr.antiochus_nicator.4

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Type: Head of Antiochus Nicator right, diademed

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ (orientation: ⇊) [transliteration: basileōs antiochou ]
    • Type: Zeus standing left throwing thunderbolt in right hand and aegis over outstretched left arm, eagle at left foot
    • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 29 symbol, consists of Δ, Ρ, and Ο
    • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 15 symbol, consists of Α and Ν
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage