Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Eucratides I 6.29

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.eucratides_i.6.29

Parent Type: bigr.eucratides_i.6

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • 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

  • 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 142 symbol, consists of and Π
    • Deity: Dioscuri
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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