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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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| Weight | 7.06 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΑΛΚΙΔΟΥ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Antialcidas ruled from the eastern reaches of the Indo-Greek world, likely based at Taxila, and is notable for being the king whose ambassador Heliodorus erected the Heliodorus pillar at Vidisha — the earliest known inscription attesting to a Greek convert to Vaishnavism on the Indian subcontinent. The diplomatic and cultural entanglement that pillar represents gives his coinage an unusually rich context among Indo-Greek issues.
The Bopearachchi 15A classification places this among his later bronzes, struck as Indo-Greek territorial control was contracting under Scythian pressure from the northwest.