This study deals with three rare Hellenistic coins kept by two Russian museums: the State Historical Museum and the State Museum of Oriental Art. All specimens are of a great numismatic interest, firstly, because they belong to rare or previously unknown issues.
The paper deals with the iconography of Timarchos’ ‘Dioscuri coinage’. The remarkable feature of these coins is that this coin type is nearly to be identical to that one of Greco-Bactrian king Eukratides I. The analysis of the stylistics shows the peculiar way of Timarchos’ iconography. Additionally, the ‘Dioscuri motif’ could have stressed the partnership between two rulers.
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