Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Menander II 10.1

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.menander_ii.10.1

Parent Type: bigr.menander_ii.10

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Coin
  • Date: first half first century BCE
  • Denomination: Denomination M
  • Manufacture: Struck
  • Material: Bronze
  • Shape: Rectangle

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ (orientation: 🠑🠒🠓) [transliteration: basileōs dikaiou menandrou ]
    • 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

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨢𐨿𐨪𐨨𐨁𐨐𐨯 𐨨𐨅𐨣𐨡𐨿𐨪𐨯 (orientation: 🠓🠐🠑) [transliteration: mahārājasa dhramikasa menaṃdrasa ]
    • Type: Two pilei with stars, palms between
    • Symbol (Below): Bopearachchi Monogram 244 symbol, consists of Ν, Ι, and Δ
    • Deity: Dioscuri
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage