Tetradrachm In the name of Hermaeus Soter

Hermaeus was almost certainly the last Indo-Greek king, his authority by this period reduced to a shrinking pocket of territory in the Paropamisadae — modern northeastern Afghanistan — as Yuezhi nomads pressed relentlessly from the north and Scythian power consolidated to the south and west. These late copper issues, struck in his name across what may span decades, were likely produced by successor rulers or local mints invoking his name for legitimacy long after any centralized Indo-Greek authority had collapsed. The practice of posthumous or pseudo-autonomous coinage in his name muddies attribution considerably.

Senior's typology distinguishes this piece at 41aT, a late and relatively coarse emission within the series.