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Appendix 17 - The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises coins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

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Hermaeus' Greek legend on his own coins, both silver and copper, which were struck in the A!lexandria-Kapisa mint, is always βασιλέως σωτῆρος Ἑρμαίου, ‘Of king Hermaeus, saviour’, and the Kharoshthi legend is the corresponding Maharajasa tradatasa Heramayasa, with the ‘Zeus enthroned’ of Alexandria-Kapisa. The Kadphises coins, which are of inferior style, resembling the debased copies of Hermaeus' money issued after his death, fall into two classes. The first class has: obverse, bust of Hermaeus diademed and Greek legend βασιλέως στηρος συ Ἑρμαίου (often corrupted); reverse, Heracles facing with club and lion's skin, and a Kharoshthi legend signifying ‘Kujula Kadphises, Kushan, yavuga (chief)’. This class has the square omicron but no other square letters. The second class has: obverse, bust of Hermaeus diademed, and a Greek legend, usually mutilated, reading ‘Kujula Kadphises, Kushan’; reverse, the same as the first class. This class, beside the square omicron, has the square sigma and phi which one associates with the coins of Gondophares; as both classes must be near in time, it is clear that the period is getting too late for letter forms to mean much chronologically.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1938

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