Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: hemidrachm

Object Identifier: 1968.01.0012
Other Number: 03093
Type of Number: PV_NUMBER
Object Name: hemidrachm
Lot: Kelsey, Easton
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Silver
Weight: 2.48
Quantity: 1
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Verbatim Date: 165-130 BC
Production Site: site
Denomination: hemidrachm
Authority: Menander
Mint: Bactria
Coin Axis: dies orientation 12
Overstruck: no
Countermark: no
Pierced: no
Coin Obverse Description: Diademed bust of Menander
Coin Reverse Description: Athena armed with shield and spear. Monogram: Bop 130
Publication Title: Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum - Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India; Monnaies Greco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques
Publication Author: Gardner, Percy (ed. by Reginald Stuart Poole); Bopearachchi, Osmund
Publication Year: 1886; 1991
Class Title: Readings in Classical Greek Prose
Class Instructor: Janko, Richard
Class Department: Greek
Class Number: 401
Class Year: 2011
Class Semester: Fall
Type Category: Numismatic

Collection Access
167057 images/descriptions are openly available.

49 images are restricted; descriptions are openly available.

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hemidrachm; Silver