page_title: Hermaeus
section_title: Coins of Hermaeus
hierarchical_section_title: Hermaeus / Coins of Hermaeus
caption_attribution_description: English: Hermaios and Kalliope with Hypostratos on horseback 105 BCE
context_page_description: Hermaeus Soter or Hermaios Soter was a Western Indo-Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who ruled the territory of Paropamisade in the Hindu-Kush region, with his capital in Alexandria of the Caucasus. Bopearachchi dates Hermaeus to c. 90–70 BCE and R. C. Senior to c. 95–80 BCE.
context_section_description: Hermaeus issued Indian silver coins of three types. The first type has a diademed or sometimes helmeted portrait, with reverse of sitting Zeus making benediction gesture. Hermaeus also issued a rare series of Attic silver tetradrachms of this type, which were issued for export to Bactria.
  The second type was a joint series of Hermaeus with his queen Kalliope. The reverse departs from the traditional Hermaeus format, in that it shows the king on a prancing horse. The "king on a prancing horse" is characteristic of the contemporary Greek kings in the eastern Punjab such as Hippostratos, and it has been suggested that the coin represented a marital alliance between the two dynastic lines. The horseman on Hermaeus' version is however portrayed somewhat different, being equipped with a typical Scythian longbow.
  The third series combined the reverses of the first series, without portrait.
  Hermaeus also issued bronze coins with the head of Zeus-Mithras and a prancing horse on the reverse.
caption: Coin of Hermaios and Kalliope, with Hippostratos on horseback, 105 BCE.
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