Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Menander I 13.11

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.menander_i.13.11

Examples of this type | Quantitative Analysis

Parent Type: bigr.menander_i.13

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨨𐨅𐨣𐨡𐨿𐨪𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa menaṃdrasa ]
    • Type: Athena standing left, holding shield horizontally with left arm, throwing thunderbolt with right hand
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 116 symbol, consists of Φ and Ι
    • Symbol (Right Field): Ε
    • Deity: Athena
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage

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Silver Drachma of Menander I of Bactria, mid second century BCE. 1944.100.74609
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
1.9
Silver Drachma of Menander I of Bactria, mid second century BCE. 1949.66.25
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
2.43
Silver Drachma of Menander I of Bactria, mid second century BCE 1944.100.74608
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Weight (in gr.)
2.41
Hoard
IGCH 1928
Silver Drachma of Menander I of Bactria, mid second century BCE. 2000.7.136
Collection
American Numismatic Society
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
18.0
Weight (in gr.)
2.44
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Ménandre I Sôter]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
R 3681.362
Diameter (in mm)
16
Weight (in gr.)
2.34
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Ménandre I Sôter]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
R 3681.361
Diameter (in mm)
17
Weight (in gr.)
2.40
[Monnaie : Drachme, Argent, Incertain, Bactriane, Ménandre I Sôter]
Collection
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Identifier
R 3681.363
Diameter (in mm)
17
Weight (in gr.)
2.41
British Museum: 1888,1208.295
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
2.520
British Museum: 1922,0424.246
Collection
British Museum
Weight (in gr.)
2.410
Indo-Greek coin
Collection
Ashmolean Museum
Identifier
HCR51738
Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
15
Weight (in gr.)
2.43

Quantitative Analysis

Average measurements for this coin type:

Axis
12
Diameter (in mm)
16.6
Weight (in gr.)
2.37

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