Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Eucratides I 28

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Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: late second/first century BCE
  • Denomination: Denomination L
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Bronze
  • Shape: Rectangle

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ (orientation: ↑→↓) [transliteration: basileōs megalou euktratidou ]
    • 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

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨐𐨬𐨁𐨯𐨁𐨩𐨅 𐨣𐨒𐨪 𐨡𐨅𐨬𐨟 (orientation: ↓←↑) [transliteration: Kavisiye nagara devata ]
    • Type: Female figure seated on throne left making a blessing gesture with right hand, holding a palm in left hand; to right hill?, to left forepart of elephant
    • Deity: Dioscuri
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

References

Subtypes

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Eucratides I 28.1
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ (orientation: ↑→↓) [transliteration: basileōs megalou euktratidou ]
  • 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
  • Legend: 𐨐𐨬𐨁𐨯𐨁𐨩𐨅 𐨣𐨒𐨪 𐨡𐨅𐨬𐨟 (orientation: ↓←↑) [transliteration: Kavisiye nagara devata ]
  • Type: Female figure seated on throne left making a blessing gesture with right hand, holding a palm in left hand; to right hill?, to left forepart of elephant
  • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 272 symbol, consists of and Α
  • Deity: Dioscuri
objects: 11

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Bronze Denomination L of Indo-Greek Kingdoms, Kapisa, 170 BCE–145 BCE. 1944.100.74482
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
4.64
Bronze Denomination L of Indo-Greek Kingdoms, Kapisa, 170 BCE–145 BCE. 1973.56.1346
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
5.49
[Monnaie : Bronze, Incertain, Bactriane, Eucratide I]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
1985.667
Diameter (in mm)
17
Weight (in gr.)
4.03
[Monnaie : Bronze, Incertain, Bactriane, Eucratide I]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
K 1421
Diameter (in mm)
19
Weight (in gr.)
4.34
British Museum: 1888,1208.157
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
4.810
British Museum: 1888,1208.158
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
4.040
British Museum: IOC.44.A
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
4.53
British Museum: 1888,1208.156
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
4.580
British Museum: 1922,0116.21
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
3.830
Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR53819
Axis
11
Diameter (in mm)
15
Weight (in gr.)
3.09
Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR53820
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
13
Weight (in gr.)
4.24

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
11.75
Diameter (in mm)
16
Weight (in gr.)
4.33

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