bgr_714908 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - MENANDER I SOTER Drachme
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Type : Drachme
Date: c. 160-155 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,43 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très joli buste, bien venu à la frappe. Revers de style fin. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste héroïque de Ménandre à gauche diadémé avec l'égide sur l'épaule ornée de la tête de Méduse en pointe, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une javeline transversale.
Obverse legend : BASILEWS SWTHROS// MENANDROU, (Basilews Swthros Menandrou)
Obverse translation : (du roi sauveur Ménandre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE KHAROSHTHI "MAHARAJASA TRATASARA MENAMDRASA".
Reverse description : Athéna Alkidémos combattant à droite, casquée et drapée, tenant de la main gauche un bouclier orné de l'égide et brandissant de la main droite un foudre ; derrière, un monogramme.
Reverse translation : (du roi sauveur Ménandre).
Commentary
Drachme bilingue. Pour ce type l’un des premiers du règne de Ménandre, nous avons quatorze exemplaires recensés dans les grandes collections. La Série 3 comprend quatre sous-groupes. Deux exemplaires font partie de la collection de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (5-6, pl. 26) dont un provenant de Mir Zakah. Sur cet exemplaire, en plus de l’égide sur l’épaule, nous découvrons la tête de Méduse posée à la pointe de l’épaule.
Bilingual Drachma. For this type, one of the first from the reign of Menander, we have fourteen examples listed in the major collections. Series 3 includes four subgroups. Two examples are part of the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (5-6, pl. 26), one of which comes from Mir Zakah. On this example, in addition to the aegis on the shoulder, we discover the head of Medusa placed at the point of the shoulder
Bilingual Drachma. For this type, one of the first from the reign of Menander, we have fourteen examples listed in the major collections. Series 3 includes four subgroups. Two examples are part of the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (5-6, pl. 26), one of which comes from Mir Zakah. On this example, in addition to the aegis on the shoulder, we discover the head of Medusa placed at the point of the shoulder
Historical background
BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - MENANDER I SOTER
(165/155-130 BC)
Menander would be, according to O. Bopearachchi, the greatest monarch of Bactria. Originally from Alexandria in the Caucasus, he would have been of royal blood or belonged to the Greek aristocracy. According to Strabo (XI, 11), Menander would have extended Greek power in Bactria by conquering northwestern India. Its capital would have been Sagala which is not yet identified. He would have entered into conflict with Eucratides I, origin of a civil war which would have ruined Bactria. On the death of Eucratides, Menander recovered part of the latter's territories. When he died in 130 BC, the kingdom fell apart.
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