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Coinage
of the Bactrian Kingdom
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Diodotos I and II (in the name of Antiochos II Theos of Seleukid Kingdom), AV
Stater,
c. 250 BC, Bactrian Kingdom
(No legend)
Diademed head of Diodotos I or II right
ANTIOXOU | BASILEWS
Bearded Zeus, nude, seen from rear, advancing left, throwing thunderbolt with his raised right hand, aegis covering extended left arm, eagle
with spread wings standing left before at feet
N in left field
18.46mm, 8.37g
Mitchiner 39, Type 63a; Newell, ESM 713
Ex Glenn Woods
Image courtesy of Lawrence Woolslayer Collection
Note: Around 250 BC, Diodotus I, governor of the Seleucid kingdom in Bactria, began to secede from the Seleukid Kingdom and establish an
independent kingdom in Bactria. His coinage reflects the different phases - at first, he replaced the portrait of Antiochos II Theos
(261-246 BC) with his own and maintained the name of his sovereign on the reverse. In the second phase, he replaced the name of the Seleukid
ruler with his own. Sources state he had a son having the same name, thus making it impossible to assign issues in the name of Diodotus between
father and son.
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Demetrios I, AR Tetradrachm,
c.200-185 BC, Bactrian Kingdom
(No legend)
Diademed, draped bust right wearing elephant-skin headdress
DHMHTRIOU | BASILEWS
Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with right hand, club and lion
skin in left hand
Monogram in lower left field
32mm x 33mm, 16.28g
Bopearachchi Série 1F; SNG ANS 190
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Eukratides, AE Quadruple Unit (Indian Standard), 171-135 BC, Bactrian Kingdom
BASILEWS-MEGALOU-EUKRATIDOU
Helmeted bust right
Karosthi legend above and beneath
The Dioskouroi on horseback prancing right, each holding spear and palm
Monogram | E across fields
21mm, 8.15g
Sear GCV, Vol II, 7582; Mitchiner 190k; BMC India 16, 36
Ex Harlan J Berk, CICF show, April 2000
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To be attributed.
AE 19mm x 26mm, 8.29g
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