Hermaios Crumb

Here is a little crumb I picked up from JA bargain section.


Indi-Greek Kingdom
Imitation
AR Drachm
O: BASILEUS SUTHPOS EPMAIOY; Draped and diademed bust of Hermaios right.
R: 'Maharaja Tratarasa Hermayasa' in Kharosthi script; Zeus enthroned left and holding sceptre, Monogram in left field.
2g
17mm
Bopearachchi Series 15C, 91; Senior issue 36

 

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I was tempted by that one too.

 

I thought about that one as well, I have a rough AR posthumous one that was a gift from friend...but I can't get to my pics right now (photobucket would have to improve to be crappy, I'm moving away from them). Plus a fouree, so that's cool also!

Edit: or wait....is it a fouree?

 

Thanks

Nope, looks more like adhesions.

 

Nice! Almost got that one myself

 

I would have bid on that too if I hadn't just picked this one up (for not much) on Ebay:



I'm assuming it's a posthumous imitation also, but I don't really know...

 

Nice example, SA.

 

I don't think it is fourree but flat photos make it hard to tell silver over copper from red deposits on a silver coin. The tetradrachm below is fourree. This one came to me in 1991 and shows a lot of the typical and interesting patterns where the copper core wore through the silver. I did not say pretty. Tetradrachms are harder to find than drachms and I have seen other fourrees.

 

I picked up one of these a while back. Mine is a fourrée I'm pretty certain. I contacted CoinIndia.com in order to get more information, but they never got back to me (lots of info about these on that site, as I recall).

Glad you guys are posting this stuff ("crumbs" or not!). I might be flattering myself, but I thought this example had a finer style than most of them I've seen - the portrait is less cartoonish than some. It is still pretty crumby though.




Indo-Greek (Fourrée) Drachm
Hermaios (c. 90-70 B.C.)
Bare-headed, diademed bust rt.,
BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ
EPMAIOY, Zeus enthroned left,
sceptre in left hand & bestowing
blessing w. rt. hand, Kharoshthi
legend: maharajasa tratarasa
heramayasa. (1.67 grams)
MIG 415p, Bop 3A

 

Another later Hermaios Tetradrachm, but in a fairly nice state:


And an even later one, not pretending to be anything else than copper:

 

I believe many of these were struck after his death by persons not necessarily associated with the official lifetime mint. Does anyone know of a study covering this?

 

Here's a link to the CoinIndia site. I found it informative:

http://coinindia.com/galleries-hermaios.html