v16_0148 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS Tétradrachme bilingue posthume, (MB, Æ 23)
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 81.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 138.00 €
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 81.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 138.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme bilingue posthume, (MB, Æ 23)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : groupe I, série 11, monogramme P
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait de haut relief. Frappé sur un flan un peu court avec une partie des légendes hors champ. 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.
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).
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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