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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Asian Coins| > |Kushan Empire| > WA59708
Indo-Scythians, Kushanas Yuezhi in Hindu Kush and Gandhara, c. 30 - 10 B.C., Imitative of Hermaios
|Kushan| |Empire|, |Indo-Scythians,| |Kushanas| |Yuezhi| |in| |Hindu| |Kush| |and| |Gandhara,| |c.| |30| |-| |10| |B.C.,| |Imitative| |of| |Hermaios|, Hermaios, the last Indo-Greek king, ruled in the Hindu-Kush region, from Alexandria in Arachosia (Kandahar, Afganistan), c. 105 - 90 B.C. His prosperous rule ended when the Scythian Kushanas Yuezhi invaded from neighboring Bactria. With his defeat, the isolated area of Greek domination in the east, which had lasted three centuries since the invasion of Alexander the Great, came to an end. The new rulers widely copied Hermaios coinage for many decades, in an increasingly debased and barbarized form.

An example of this type overstruck by Gonophares established that it must be contemporary with or pre-date Gonophares' reign, c. 50 - 5 B.C. Based on style and metal content, this example is close to the last of Hermaios imitatives.
WA59708. Bronze tetradrachm, Senior Hermaios 42aT.1, Mitchiner IGIS 421b, Mitchiner ACW 2045, SNG ANS 1430 ff., Bopearachchi series 20, HGC 12 308, VF, eastern Gandhara, uncertain mint, weight 8.959g, maximum diameter 23mm, die axis 0o, c. 30 - 10 B.C.; obverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ (clockwise above), EPMAIOY (counterclockwise below), diademed and draped bust of Hermaios right, flowing diadem ties, dotted hair; reverse Kharosthi legend: Maharaajasa tratarasa Heramayasa (of Great King Hermaios the Savior), Zeus enthroned half left, chest bare, himation around hips and legs and over left shoulder, legs apart, right hand raised in benediction, scepter in left hand, monogram left, Kharosthi letter right; SOLD










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