Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 3.1

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.lysias.3.1

Parent Type: bigr.lysias.3

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Type: Bust of Lysias, diademed, seen from behind, wearing Boeotian helmet with three plumes covered with animal skin, throwing spear with right arm, carrying aegis in the form of elephant's head over left arm; bead and reel border
    • Portrait: Lysias Anicetus

  • 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 10 symbol, consists of Α and Τ
    • Symbol (Right Field): Σ
    • Deity: Heracles
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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