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Hemi-Obol - Antialcidas
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 130 BC - 120 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΑΛΚΙΔΟΥ |
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Antialcidas ruled from the eastern reaches of the Indo-Greek territory, likely based at Taxila, during a period when the kingdom was fracturing under pressure from Scythian incursions from the north and rival Greek dynasts pressing from the west. His coinage is notable for being among the first to adopt fully bilingual legends — Greek on one face, Kharosthi on the other — a practical concession to local administrative and commercial realities that became standard for successors.
Bronze fractions at this denomination were workhorses of local market exchange. Bopearachchi places him in the late second century BC with reasonable confidence; Mitchiner's attribution broadly agrees, though exact regnal dates remain contested among specialists.