Gold coin of Hooerkes with Mithras holding lance and sword

Gold coin. Gardner, 142 No. 54 and Pl. XXVIII, 4; MMM II 187 No. If and fig. 6.O b v.: Bust of Hooerkes. R e v.: M I I PO. Mithras dressed in tunic. Holding a lance with his l.h. and a sword with his r.h. Round his head nimbus and radiate crown. In front of him a character. Rim of pearls. Thus on the coins of the Scythian kings Kanerkes and Hooerkes reigning in North-West of India from 87-129 A.D., Mithras is represented as a solar deity with nimbus and radiate crown, but also as a war-god with lance and sword. The fact that on one of the coins described a goddess is represented with a…