Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Hermaeus 11.11

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.hermaeus.11.11

Examples of this type | Quantitative Analysis

Parent Type: bigr.hermaeus.11

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: first century BCE/first century CE
  • Denomination: Drachma
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Silver
  • Shape: Round

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs sotēros hermaiou ]
    • Type: Bust of Hermaeus, diademed and draped right
    • Portrait: Hermaeus of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨱𐨅𐨪𐨨𐨩𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa heramayasa ]
    • Type: Zeus, seated on throne, aureole around head, outstretched right arm, holding sceptre in left arm
    • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 271 symbol, consists of Δ, Υ, and Κ
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

References

Examples of this typeDownload CSV

Silver Drachma, first century BCE/first century CE. 1993.29.123
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
1
Diameter (in mm)
16.0
Weight (in gr.)
2.16
Silver Drachma, first century BCE/first century CE 1944.100.74911
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
2.09
Silver Drachma, first century BCE/first century CE. 1979.45.181
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
1.35
Silver Drachma, first century BCE/first century CE. 1993.29.122
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
17.0
Weight (in gr.)
2.27
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Hermaios]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
R 3681.595
Diameter (in mm)
16
Weight (in gr.)
2.37
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Hermaios]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
R 3681.596
Diameter (in mm)
17
Weight (in gr.)
2.40
British Museum: IOC.137
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
2.130
British Museum: 1860,1220.58
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
2.200
Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR53941
Axis
10
Diameter (in mm)
13
Weight (in gr.)
2.22

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
9.4
Diameter (in mm)
15.8
Weight (in gr.)
2.13

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