Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Menander I 23.2

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.menander_i.23.2

Parent Type: bigr.menander_i.23

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: mid second century BCE
  • Denomination: Denomination A
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Bronze
  • Shape: Rectangle

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ (orientation: 🠑🠒🠓) [transliteration: basileōs sotēros menandrou ]
    • Type: Head of Athena, wearing crested Corinthian helmet right
    • Deity: Athena

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨟𐨿𐨪𐨟𐨪𐨯 𐨨𐨅𐨣𐨡𐨿𐨪𐨯 (orientation: 🠓🠐🠑) [transliteration: mahārājasa tratarasa menaṃdrasa ]
    • Type: Horse prancing right
    • Symbol (Left Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 182 symbol, consists of Π, Η, Δ, and Τ
    • Symbol (Right Field): Σ
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage