ANTIALKIDAS 145BC Baktrian Indo- Greek Ancient Coin of India Zeus Gemini i46909

Description: Item: i46909 Authentic Ancient Coin of: Baktrian Indo-Greek Kingdom in India Antialkidas - King, circa 145-135 B.C. Square Bronze 18mm (8.16 grams) Struck circa 145-135 B.C. Uncertain mint in the Paropamisadai or Gandhara Reference: HGC 12, 263; Sear 7633; Bopearachchi Serie 17 Bust of Zeus right, thunderbolt over left shoulder; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ behind, NIKHΦΟΡΟΥ above, ANTIAΛKIΔOY before. Two palm-branches between caps of the Dioscuri; Karosthi legend (Maharajasa jayadharasa Amtialkidasa [of Great King Antialkidas the Victory Bearer]) around; monogram beneath. You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity. In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the "Father of Gods and men" (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε) who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology . His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and Etruscan counterpart is Tinia . Zeus was the child of Cronus and Rhea , and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he was married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona , his consort was Dione : according to the Iliad , he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena , Apollo and Artemis , Hermes , Persephone (by Demeter ), Dionysus , Perseus , Heracles , Helen of Troy , Minos , and the Muses (by Mnemosyne ); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus . As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods , who oversaw the universe. As Pausanias observed, "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". In Hesiod's Theogony Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is referred to as the chieftain of the gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt , eagle , bull , and oak . In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East , such as the scepter . Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty. Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac . It was one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. Its name is Latin for "twins," and it is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology . Its symbol is Unicode ♊. In Greek and Roman mythology , Pollux and Castor or Polydeuces were twin brothers, together known as the Dioskouri. Their mother was Leda , but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus , the king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus , who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra . In Latin the twins are also known as the Gemini or Castores. When Castor was killed, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini . The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire , and were also associated with horsemanship. They are sometimes called the Tyndaridae or Tyndarids, later seen as a reference to their father and stepfather Tyndareus . Antialcidas Nikephoros (Greek: Ἀντιαλκίδας ὁ Νικηφόρος; epithet means "the Victorious") was a Greek King of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, king of the Eucratid Dynasty , who reigned from his capital at Taxila . Bopearachchi has suggested that he ruled from ca. 115 to 95 BCE in the western parts of the Indo-Greek realms, whereas R. C. Senior places him around 130 to 120 BCE and also in eastern Punjab (which seems better supported by coin findings). Senior does however believe that he ruled in tandem with King Lysias . Genealogy Antialcidas may have been a relative of the Bactrian king Heliocles I , but ruled after the fall of the Bactrian kingdom. Several later kings may have been related to Antialcidas: Heliokles II , Amyntas , Diomedes and Hermaeus all struck coins with similar features. The Heliodorus inscription Main article: Heliodorus pillar Antialcidas sent an Embassy to Vidisa in central India. Inscription on the Heliodorus pillar made by Antialcidas' Ambassador Heliodorus in 110 BCE. Though there are few sources for the late Indo-Greek history, Antialcidas is known from an inscription left on a pillar (the Heliodorus pillar ), which was erected by his ambassador Heliodorus at the court of the Sunga king Bhagabhadra at Vidisha , near Sanchi . It states that he was a devotee of Krishna, the Hindu god. A part of the inscriptions says: "This Garuda-standard was made by order of the Bhagavata ... Heliodoros, the son of Dion, a man of Taxila, a Greek ambassador from King Antialkidas, to King Bhagabhadra, the son of the Princess from Benares, the saviour, while prospering in the fourteenth year of his reign." Coins Otherwise, Antialcidas is also known through his plentiful coins. He issued a number of bilingual Indian silver types: diademed, wearing a helmet with bull's horns or a flat kausia. He also appears throwing a spear. According to some interpretations (Grousset), the baby elephant may symbolize the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama , who took the shape of a small elephant to enter the womb of his mother Queen Maya , a scene often depicted in Greco-Buddhist art . In that case the coin scene would represent a victory of Buddhism. According to other interpretations the elephant was the symbol of the city of Taxila . "Mule coins" (overstrikes) There is a bronze which features the obverse of Lysias and the reverse of Antialcidas. This was interpreted by Tarn and other earlier scholars as though the two kings might have forged some kind of alliance, but later, a bronze with the opposite arrangement was found. Modern scholarship has however largely accepted that what was originally supposed to be a "joint issue" was in fact a mule; in other words, a mistake occurred in the process of overstriking the original coin, and it was accidentally issued with both king's standards. 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