Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 5

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.lysias.5

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Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΛΥΣΙΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs anikētou lysiou ]
    • Type: Bust of Lysias, diademed and draped right
    • Portrait: Lysias Anicetus

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨀𐨤𐨜𐨁𐨱𐨟𐨯 𐨫𐨁𐨯𐨁𐨐𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa apadihatasa lisikasa ]
    • 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

References

Subtypes

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Subtype Obverse Reverse Examples of this type
Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 5.1
  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΛΥΣΙΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs anikētou lysiou ]
  • Type: Bust of Lysias, diademed and draped right
  • Portrait: Lysias Anicetus
  • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨀𐨤𐨜𐨁𐨱𐨟𐨯 𐨫𐨁𐨯𐨁𐨐𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa apadihatasa lisikasa ]
  • 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
objects: 5

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Silver Drachma of Lysias Anicetus, Bactria, 120 BCE–110 BCE. 1944.100.74705
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
2.41
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Lysias]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
R 3681.186
Diameter (in mm)
15
Weight (in gr.)
2.39
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Lysias]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
L 3046
Diameter (in mm)
16
Weight (in gr.)
2.02
British Museum: 1813,0502.7
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
2.020
British Museum: 1888,1208.196
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
2.220

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
15.5
Weight (in gr.)
2.21

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