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SNG KIKPE I 1131 Demetrios I of Bactria and India
Inventory no: SNG KIKPE I 1131

Class/status: Ancient Ruler's issue, Authority: Demetrios I. von Baktrien

Date: ca. 200-190 BC

Country: Afghanistan
Mint: Taxila? (Gandhara)

Obverse: Elephant’s head r., with bell round neck, within dotted border.
Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ [to r. and to l.]. Caduceus; inner l. below monogram.

Production: struck

Coin, Bronze, 11,98 g, 28 mm, 12 h

Publications: SNG KIKPE I 1131; Bopearachchi 1991, 167, série 5, nos. 15-16, pl. 5.

Provenance: Classical Numismatic Group, Mail Bid Sale 58 (19.09.2001), lot 865.

Web Portals:
https://numismatics.org/bigr/id/bigr.demetrius_i.8

Triple unit. The mint may have been located in Taxila.

Photographer Obverse: Kostas Manolis
Photographer Reverse: Kostas Manolis

Athen, KIKPE Foundation
Accession KNC02A587 Year of access 2002 Zugangsart Schenkung

Recommended Quotation: KIKPE, SNG KIKPE I 1131

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