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bgr_712454 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS Tétradrachme

BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS Tétradrachme XF
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : groupe I, série 11, monogramme P
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 8,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier court sur les légendes. Portrait stylisé. Revers un peu brouillé. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
B.132 var. série 20P, cf., pl. 58, n°134 - Mit.421 a var - HGCS. 12/308

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste diadèmé et drapé d'Hermaios à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : [BASILEWS] SWTHROS// ERMAIOU.

Reverse

Reverse legend : LÉGENDE KHAROSHTHI.
Reverse description : Zeus radié trônant de trois quarts à gauche, visage de face, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et levant la main droite.
Reverse translation : (Grand Roi très grand Hermaios).

Commentary

Poids léger. Tétradrachme bilingue posthume.

Historical background

BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS

(90-70 BC)

Hermaios is depicted on some Indian stallion tetradrachms with Calliope, his consort. Hermaios, one of the last Indo-Greek kings of Bactria, never reigned in Gandhara and his coins are not found on the site of Taxila. The posthumous coinage for Hermaios is by far the most important since it was made until 40 AD, more than a hundred years after the death of the monarch..

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