Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Hermaeus 3.2

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.hermaeus.3.2

Parent Type: bigr.hermaeus.3

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: late second/early first century BCE
  • Denomination: Tetradrachm
  • 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, wearing Boeotian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear
    • 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 (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 191 symbol, consists of Π, Δ, Η, and Ρ
    • Deity: Zeus
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage