Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Hermaeus 16.1

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.hermaeus.16.1

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Parent Type: bigr.hermaeus.16

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ (omicron and rho square) (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, outstretched right arm, holding sceptre in left arm
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 17 symbol, consists of Ν, Α, and Δ
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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Subtypes

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Hermaeus 16.1.1
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ (omicron and rho square) (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs sotēros hermaiou ]
  • Type: Bust of Hermaeus, diademed and draped right
  • Portrait: Hermaeus of Bactria
  • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨱𐨅𐨪𐨨𐨩𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa heramayasa ]
  • Type: Zeus seated on throne, outstretched right arm, holding sceptre in left arm
  • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 17 symbol, consists of Ν, Α, and Δ
  • Symbol (Right Field): Kharoshthi 74.1 symbol, represents 𐨨
  • Deity: Zeus
object: 1

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Silver Tetradrachm, first century BCE/first century CE 1995.51.219
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
2
Diameter (in mm)
24.0
Weight (in gr.)
9.23
British Museum: 1922,0424.264
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
8.390

Quantitative Analysis

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Axis
2
Diameter (in mm)
24
Weight (in gr.)
8.81

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