Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Dionysius 2.2

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.dionysius.2.2

Parent Type: bigr.dionysius.2

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs sotēros dionysiou ]
    • Type: Apollo standing, holding bow and arrow right
    • Deity: Apollo

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨡𐨁𐨀𐨂𐨣𐨁𐨯𐨁𐨩𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa diunisiyasa ]
    • Type: Tripod
    • Symbol (Left Field): Kharoshthi 47 symbol, represents 𐨡𐨁
    • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 253var symbol, consists of and Ψ
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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