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BIGR: A new online resource for Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage

Coins of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR) is an innovative research tool which provides a typology and catalogue of the coins issued under the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kings and queens who ruled over an area consisting of parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, eastern Iran, and Pakistan. 

BIGR is organized using a new typology of Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins, created by Gunnar Dumke and Simon Glenn, published first here. The current version will soon link to coins in the major collections of the American Numismatic SocietyAshmolean MuseumBibliothèque nationale de France, the Münzkabinett of the State Museum of BerlinBritish Museum, and the Fitzwilliam Museum. A print volume with commentary on the BIGR typology and other aspects of the coinages, published by the American Numismatic Society, will follow in 2024. Funding for the project, a joint initiative between the American Numismatic Society and the Ashmolean Museum and Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford, was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.


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David Wigg-Wolf (September 8, 2022). BIGR: A new online resource for Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage. Digital Numismatics. Retrieved April 20, 2025 from https://nomisma.hypotheses.org/3560


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