Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Diomedes 5

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.diomedes.5

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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

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΔΙΟΜΗΔΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs sotēros diomēdou ]
    • Type: Bust of Diomedes, diademed, seen from behind, wearing Boeotian helmet with three plumes throwing spear with right arm, aegis over left shoulder
    • Portrait: Diomedes of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨡𐨁𐨩𐨂𐨨𐨅𐨟𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa diyumetasa ]
    • 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 5.1
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΔΙΟΜΗΔΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs sotēros diomēdou ]
  • Type: Bust of Diomedes, diademed, seen from behind, wearing Boeotian helmet with three plumes throwing spear with right arm, aegis over left shoulder
  • Portrait: Diomedes of Bactria
  • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨡𐨁𐨩𐨂𐨨𐨅𐨟𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa diyumetasa ]
  • 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
objects: 6

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Silver Tetradrachm of Diomedes of Bactria, Bactria, 110 BCE–80 BCE. 1995.51.197
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
10
Diameter (in mm)
26.0
Weight (in gr.)
9.75
Silver Tetradrachm of Diomedes of Bactria, Bactria, 95 BCE–90 BCE. 1995.51.254
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
9.88
Silver Tetradrachm of Diomedes of Bactria, Bactria, 95 BCE–90 BCE. 1944.100.74793
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
9.33
Findspot
Rawalpindi
British Museum: 1888,1208.210
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
9.540
British Museum: 1887,0604.2
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
9.380
Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR51979
Axis
1
Diameter (in mm)
22
Weight (in gr.)
8.79

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
8.75
Diameter (in mm)
24
Weight (in gr.)
9.44

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