Record ID: LANCUM-49682A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Indo-Greek tetradrachm of the Kushan ruler Kujula Kadphises, struck in the Hindu Kush, dating to the period c.AD 40-90. Obverse: [BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣTHP]OΣΣV [EP]MAIOV, Diademed bust right with psuedo-Hermaeus legend. Reverse: Karoshti legend (Kujula Kasasa Kushana Yavugasa Dhramathidasa), Hercules standing facing holding club and lion skin. The coin is 22.59mm in diameter, 2.42mm in thickness and weighs 6.56g. As Mitchiner, 1978: p. 389, no. 2844. Examples of Indo-Greek coins have been recorded through the PAS. Some of these may well be genuine ancient losses, howe…
Created on: Friday 1st February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-046AF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Indo-Greek coin from the Hindu Kush, an issue of Kujula Kadphises (second half of first century AD) which imitates a type of Hermaeus, who was a late Greek king in the area whose coins are imitated fairly extensively (Robert Bracey pers comm). The obverse has the bust of the King and the reverse a standing Heracles. Mitchiner 2897-2903 Hermaeus Soter "the Saviour" (c.90-70 BC) was a Western Indo-Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who ruled the territory of Paropamisade in the Hindu-Kush region, with his capital in Alexandria of the Caucasus which is near today's Kabul…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
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