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Drachm - Satavastra - 12 BC-130 AD Province of Bannu
| Issuer | Indo-Parthian Kingdom |
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| Year | 100 |
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| Currency | Drachm (12 BC-225 AD) |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Satavastra facing left, wearing a close-fitting headdress with ribbon streamers extending behind. The Gondopharan dynastic symbol appears in the field before the face. The portrait is rendered in the debased Hellenistic style typical of late Indo-Parthian coinage, with the legend partially visible around the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Kharoshthi |
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The Indo-Parthian Kingdom emerged from the collapse of Indo-Greek power in the northwestern subcontinent, with Gondophares — the dynasty's most documented ruler — possibly the same king recorded in Syriac Christian tradition as a recipient of the apostle Thomas. The Satavastra regional issues, struck in the Bannu basin, represent a decentralized production under governors or subordinate dynasts rather than the central royal mint, which accounts for the notable inconsistency in die workmanship across surviving specimens.
MIG#1108 is among the less frequently encountered references in this series at auction.