155 BCE - 130 BCEΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ | Mahārājasa tratarasa Menaṃdrasa (of the Great King Menander the Savior)
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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Sale(s)Sale(s) ᵖ:
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Classical Numismatic Group 37, 20 March 1996, 825
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek) Bust of Menander I, diademed and draped, wearing Boeotian helmet covered with animal skin right
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Mahārājasa tratarasa Menaṃdrasa (of the Great King Menander the Savior) (Kharosthi) Athena standing left, holding shield horizontally with left arm, throwing thunderbolt with right hand
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 155 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 130 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Bronze
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 2.432.43 g <br />2,430 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: drachma
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StandardStandard.: Indian
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΖΟΙΛΟΥ (Greek) Bust of Zoilus I, diademed and draped right (visible: diademed head, with a narrow loop above it which has to be an S)
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Mahārājasa dhramikasa Jhoilasa (of the Great King Zoilos the Just) (Kharosthi) Heracles, wreathed, naked, standing facing resting right hand on club, lion skin in crook of left arm (visible: hand pointing left, holding a filleted wreath. Monogram: A)
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Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 145 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 130 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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drachma
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Indian
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References
| Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:
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Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
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| RemarksRemarks:
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This is clearly a drachm of Zoilos I with diademed bust and standing Herakles, most probably with monogram attributed by Mitchiner to Chach (MIG 256b). This over-strike suggests that Menander and Zoilos did rule concurrently as Mitchiner states, and not consecutively as Bopearachchi has it.
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References
- a b Mitchiner, Michael (1975), Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian coinage, London,
- a b Bopearachchi, Osmund (1991), Monnaies gréco-bactriennes et indo-grecques : catalogue raissoné, Paris, 459 p., 69 pl.
- a b Hoover, Oliver D. (2013), Handbook of coins of Baktria and ancient India : including Sogdiana, Margiana, Areia, and the Indo-Greek, Indo-Skythian, and native Indian states south of the Hindu Kush, fifth century BC to first century, Lancaster-London,
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