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Drachm - Sarpedonus - 12 BC-130 AD Province of Bannu
| Issuer | Indo-Parthian Kingdom |
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| Year | 60 |
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| Currency | Drachm (12 BC-225 AD) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | MAHARAJASA RAJARAJASA TRATARASA DHRAMIASA SABEDANASA |
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The Indo-Parthian Kingdom occupied an awkward political middle ground — nominally successor to the Arsacid sphere east of the Indus, but perpetually contested by the Kushans pressing from the north and the Sakas entrenched across much of the subcontinent. Sarpedonus is among the least-documented rulers in the sequence, known almost entirely through his coinage rather than any textual record. His precise relationship to Gondophares and the later Indo-Parthian dynasts remains unresolved.
The Bannu region, straddling what is now the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland, produced a distinct regional coinage tradition. MIG#1105 places this type firmly within that provincial output.