Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Demetrius I 1.7

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.demetrius_i.1.7

Parent Type: bigr.demetrius_i.1

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: late third/early second century BCE
  • Denomination: Tetradrachm
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Silver
  • Shape: Round

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Type: Bust of Demetrius I, diademed and draped right, wearing elephant scalp helmet; bead and reel border

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ (orientation: ⇊) [transliteration: basileōs dēmētriou ]
    • Type: Heracles, wreathed, naked, standing facing crowning head with wreath in right hand, club and lion skin in crook of left arm; bead and reel border
    • Symbol (Exergue): Bopearachchi Monogram 63 symbol, consists of Κ, Ρ, and Δ
    • Deity: Heracles
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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