Numismatic Cabinet · Greco-Baktrian & Indo-Greek
BAKTRIA, Sophytes (Sophytos)
AR Drachm · Circa 4th-3rd century BC · Uncertain mint, Baktria
Obverse. Head right wearing a close-fitting helmet bound with a laurel wreath and fitted with a cheek guard.
Reverse. ΣΩΦΥΤΟΥ, cock standing right; caduceus in the left field.
- Denomination
- AR Drachm
- Date
- Circa 4th-3rd century BC
- Mint
- Uncertain mint, Baktria
- Condition
- Struck on a thick flan
- References
- Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes; HGC 12, 13.
Photographed by me; no purchase record. Attribution of the Sophytes series is long debated — the coins have been placed variously with the Punjab ruler who submitted to Alexander, with a figure based in Baktria, and with a Mauryan satrap in Arachosia.