Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Diomedes 2

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.diomedes.2

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Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

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

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΔΙΟΜΗΔΟΥ [transliteration: basileōs sotētros diomēdou ]
    • Type: Dioscuri on horseback galloping right, wearing pilei and cuirasses holding spears in right hands and palms in left
    • Deity: Dioscuri
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Diomedes 2.1
  • Type: Bust of Diomedes, diademed and draped, wearing Boeotian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear right; bead and reel border
  • Portrait: Diomedes of Bactria
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΔΙΟΜΗΔΟΥ [transliteration: basileōs sotētros diomēdou ]
  • Type: Dioscuri on horseback galloping right, wearing pilei and cuirasses holding spears in right hands and palms in left
  • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 107 symbol, consists of Ο, Φ, and Τ
  • Deity: Dioscuri
object: 1

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Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR51974
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
28
Weight (in gr.)
16.3

Quantitative Analysis

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Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
28
Weight (in gr.)
16.3

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