BIGR: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Eucratides I 16.3

Typological Description

Object Type: Coin
Date: mid second century BCE
Denomination: Denomination B (double)
Manufacture: Struck
Material: Bronze
Shape: Round
Authority
- Authority: Eucratides I of Bactria
- - State: Kingdom of Bactria
  - State: Indo-Greek Kingdoms
Obverse
- Type: Bust of Eucratides I, diademed, draped and cuirassed right, wearing Boeotian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear
- Portrait: Eucratides I of Bactria
- - State: Kingdom of Bactria
  - State: Indo-Greek Kingdoms
Reverse
- Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ (orientation: ⃕→) [transliteration: basileōs megalou euktratidou ]
- Type: Dioscuri on horseback galloping right, wearing pilei and cuirasses holding spears in right hands and palms in left
- Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 113 , consists of Ο, Α, and Φ
- Deity: Dioscuri
TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

References

Reference: Bopearachchi Eucratide I 21B
Reference: Mitchiner 186d

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Bronze Denomination B (double) of Eucratides I of Bactria, mid second century BCE 1979.45.46

Collection: American Numismatic Society
Axis: 12
Weight (in gr.): 6.46

[Monnaie : Bronze, Incertain, Bactriane, Eucratide I]

Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier: R 3681.120
Diameter (in mm): 23
Weight (in gr.): 6.22

British Museum: 1922,0424.2881

Collection: British Museum
Weight (in gr.): 7.650

British Museum: 1888,1208.144

Collection: British Museum
Weight (in gr.): 6.540

British Museum: IOC.96

Collection: British Museum
Weight (in gr.): 8.530
Findspot: Bagram

Indo-Greek coin

Collection: Ashmolean Museum
Identifier: HCR53815
Axis: 11
Diameter (in mm): 19
Weight (in gr.): 6.69

Indo-Greek coin

Collection: Ashmolean Museum
Identifier: HCR53814
Axis: 12
Diameter (in mm): 17
Weight (in gr.): 6.39

Indo-Greek coin

Collection: Ashmolean Museum
Identifier: HCR53811
Axis: 12
Diameter (in mm): 18
Weight (in gr.): 6.87

Indo-Greek coin

Collection: Ashmolean Museum
Identifier: HCR53816
Axis: 12
Diameter (in mm): 19
Weight (in gr.): 7.02

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis: 11.8
Diameter (in mm): 19.2
Weight (in gr.): 6.93

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Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Eucratides I 16.3

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