Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Hermaeus 20.2.3

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.hermaeus.20.2.3

Parent Type: bigr.hermaeus.20.2

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: first century BCE/first century CE
  • Denomination: Tetradrachm
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Bronze
  • 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 219 symbol, consists of Χ, Κ, and Ρ
    • Symbol (Right Field): Kharoshthi 8 symbol, represents 𐨐
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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