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Bactrian Kingdom, Apollodotus I, 174 – 165 B.C.; Bronze AE 30 Bactrian Kingdom, Apollodotus I, 174 – 165 B.C.; Bronze AE 30; references: SNG Cop 338 ff. var (unlisted monogram); aVF; 9.354 g, maximum diameter 30.4 mm, die axis 180 degrees, obverse BASILEWS APOLLODOTOU SWTHROS, Apollo standing facing, arrow in right, bow in left; reverse Kharosthi legend, tripod, monogram left, all within square boarder of dots; The Kharosthi legend on the reverse, Ma ha ra j… |
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KUSHAN Coin. KING HUVISHKA on COUCH. FIRE GOD Pharro. Bactrian Legend. $79.99 Kushan Empire. King Huvishka 126 to 164 A.D. Seated on couch open legged. Name in Bactrian Legend. Reverse: Fire god Pharro holding fire in right hand. Copper Tetradrachm = four Drachms. Large Thick Heavy Copper Module. |
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Sylloge: (SNG ANS 9) Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins (Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum) $125.00 A catalogue of the American Numismatic Society’s collection of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins. A well organized catalogue providing plates of the coins on one page, and the text, containing solely numismatic data, on the following page…. |
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Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria (Hellenistic Culture and Society) $65.96 Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty emblazoned its coins with the dynamic image of Thundering Zeus, led this historic movement by breaki… |
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Bactrian Personal Names (Iranische Onomastik) $120.00 Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan from the time of the Kushan empire (1st to 3rd centuries C.E.) until the early Islamic period. The surviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents, coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attest a large number of personal names, whose various linguistic origins – Persian, Sogdian, Indian, Hunnic, Turkish, and of cour… |
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