bgr_709841 - BACTRIA - BACTRIAN KINGDOM - HERMAEUS Drachme bilingue
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Type : Drachme bilingue
Date: c. 55-45 AC.
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain du Gandhara
Metal : silver
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Buste agréable. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d'Hermaios à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : BASILEWS SWTHROS// ERMAIOU.
Obverse translation : (Roi sauveur Hermaios).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE KHAROSHTHI "MAHARAJASA TRATARASA HERAMAYASA".
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 ; un monogramme dans le champ à droite.
Reverse translation : (Roi sauveur 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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