Æ reduced tetradrachm Indo-Scythian

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背面描述	Heracles standing facing, nude, with his weight shifted in a slight contrapposto stance, holding a club in his right hand and the Nemean lion skin draped over his left arm. The figure is rendered in a debased Hellenistic style typical of late Indo-Scythian imitative bronzes. A blundered and partially legible Kharosthi legend encircles the central type in the field.
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附加信息	The Indo-Scythian kingdom emerged as Saka nomads pushed south through Bactria following the collapse of Greco-Bactrian power in the late second century BC, eventually controlling territories spanning modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwestern India. The "reduced tetradrachm" denomination is a misnomer in practical terms — by this period the tetradrachm had already been so heavily debased and downsized through successive Bactrian and Indo-Greek issues that the copper versions were essentially token coinage, inheriting a prestigious name with little of the original monetary weight behind it. Mitchell's AC#2906-10 grouping covers a range of rulers and sub-types, making precise attribution within the series genuinely difficult without die study.

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