Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Lysias 9.2

Typological Description

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

• Authority

  • Authority: Lysias Anicetus
  • • State: Kingdom of Bactria
    • State: Indo-Greek Kingdoms

• Obverse

  • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΛΥΣΙΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs anikētou lysiou ]
  • 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
  • Portrait: Lysias Anicetus
  • • State: Kingdom of Bactria
    • State: Indo-Greek Kingdoms

• 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
  • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 63 , consists of Κ, Ρ, and Δ
  • Deity: Heracles
• TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage