Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 4

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.lysias.4

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Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Type: Bust of Lysias, diademed and draped right, wearing elephant scalp helmet; 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
    • Deity: Heracles
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

Subtypes

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 4.1
  • Type: Bust of Lysias, diademed and draped right, wearing elephant scalp helmet; bead and reel border
  • Portrait: Lysias Anicetus
  • 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 182 symbol, consists of Π, Η, Δ, and Τ
  • Deity: Heracles