Live auction - bgr_762588 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 200 € |
| Price : | 100 € |
| Maximum bid : | 130 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 October 2023 14:29:30 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 10-100
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain du Gandhara
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 9,55 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré présentant un très joli buste au droit. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé et drapé d'Hermaios à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : BASILEWS SWTHROS// ERMAIOU
Obverse translation : (Du grand roi Hermaios).
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
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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