bgr_830514 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 90 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Revers agréable. Patine foncée
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 : Cheval au pas à droite, levant l’antérieur gauche ; monogramme entre les jambes.
Reverse translation : (Grand Roi très grand Hermaios).
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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