Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Archebius 5.1

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.archebius.5.1

Parent Type: bigr.archebius.5

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΡΧΕΒΙΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs dikaiou nikēphorou archebiou ]
    • Type: Bust of Archebius, diademed and draped, wearing Boeotian helmet with wings covered with animal skin adorned with face right
    • Portrait: Archebius of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨢𐨿𐨪𐨨𐨁𐨐𐨯 𐨗𐨩𐨢𐨪𐨯 𐨀𐨪𐨿𐨑𐨅𐨦𐨁𐨩𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa dhramikasa jayadharasa arkhebiyasa ]
    • Type: Zeus standing facing, hurling thunderbolt with right hand, holding sceptre in left arm
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 244 symbol, consists of Ν, Ι, and Δ
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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