Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage Philoxenus 4.5

Canonical URI: https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.philoxenus.4.5

Parent Type: bigr.philoxenus.4

Typological Description

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

  • Authority

  • Obverse

    • Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΥ (orientation: ⃕⤻) [transliteration: basileōs anikētou philoxenou ]
    • Type: Bust of Philoxenus, diademed and draped right, wearing Boeotian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear
    • Portrait: Philoxenus of Bactria

  • Reverse

    • Legend: 𐨨𐨱𐨪𐨗𐨯 𐨀𐨤𐨜𐨁𐨱𐨟𐨯 𐨥𐨁𐨫𐨯𐨁𐨣𐨯 (orientation: ↶(plus arrow below, going clockwise from right to left)) [transliteration: mahārājasa apaḍihatasa philasinasa ]
    • Type: Deified ruler riding on horse, wearing helmet and cuirass right
    • Symbol (Below): Bopearachchi Monogram 120var symbol, consists of Σ and Α
    • Symbol (Right Field): Bopearachchi Monogram 199 symbol, consists of Π, Ν, and Ξ
  • TypeSeries: Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage