Amyntas Nicator
Amyntas | |
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Indo-Greek king | |
Reign | 95–90 BCE |
Amyntas Nicator (
Date
Bopearachchi places Amyntas c. 95–90 BCE, whereas Senior places him c. 80–65 BCE.
Coinage
Amyntas struck bilingual silver coins with a variety of portraits. Most of these bear the reverse of sitting Zeus holding a victory palm and a small statue of Athena, which according to RC Senior may have indicated an alliance between the house of Menander I and the house of Antialcidas. Some of his coins feature the reverse of fighting Athena typical for Menander's descendants. The epithet Nikator (Victor) was previously only used on the Bactrian coins of Agathocles, a century before Amyntas' reign.
His bronzes feature the syncretic deity Zeus-Mithra wearing a phrygian cap and Athena standing at rest, both forming the vitarka mudra.
Amyntas also minted some spectacular Attic coins, the largest silver coins of
Overstrikes
Amyntas is known to have overstruck coins of
See also
References
- ISBN 2-9516679-2-2.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-89005-524-6.
- Narain, A.K. (1976). The Coin Types of the Indo-Greek Kings, 256–54 B.C. Chicago. ISBN 0-89005-109-7.)
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