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AE Tetradrachm - Pakores later Kings, Imitative type
| Issuer | Indo-Parthian Kingdom |
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| Year | 1-200 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Winged Nike standing left, holding a wreath extended in the right hand and a palm branch in the left hand. The figure is rendered in a degenerate imitative style derived from earlier Indo-Parthian coinage. A degraded Kharoshthi legend, largely illegible due to the progressive decline of the engraving tradition, is distributed around the field near the periphery of the coin. |
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| Mintage | ND (1-200) |
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The Indo-Parthian kingdom that produced imitative tetradrachms under rulers like Pakores was operating at the fringe of Parthian political reach, where local dynasts minted in copper precisely because silver was scarce and trade networks to the west had fractured. These pieces derive their types from earlier Gondopharid prototypes, copied and recopied through successive generations of dies until the original imagery degraded substantially — a degradation that is itself chronologically useful to specialists attempting to sequence the later issues.