Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 2.3

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.lysias.2.3

Parent Type: bigr.lysias.2

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

  • Reverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΛΥΣΙΟΥ (orientation: ↷) [transliteration: basileōs anikētou lysiou ]
    • Type: Heracles, wreathed, naked, standing facing crowning head with wreath in right hand, club, palm branch and lion skin in crook of left arm
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 116 symbol, consists of Φ and Ι
    • Deity: Heracles
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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