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Baktria, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Diodotos I and II AV Stater. Struck in the name of Antiochos II. Mint A (near Aï Khanoum), circa 240-225 BC. Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Zeus Bremetes advancing left, extended left arm draped with aegis, preparing to hurl thunderbolt in right hand; N in inner left field above eagle standing to left. Cf. Holt Series A, Group 7 (tetradrachm); Bopearachchi –; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS –; SC 629 (Antiochos II of Syria). 8.31g, 17mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine. Very well preserved for the type, without the usual test cut.
Demetrios I was the Seleukid satrap of Baktria, who seized the opportunity presented by the death of Antiochos II Theos to secede from the empire and declare himself king of Baktria. Justin (XLI, 4) tell us: 'Diodotus, the governor of the thousand cities of Baktria, defected and proclaimed himself king; all the other people of the Orient followed his example and seceded from the Macedonians.' The newly born kingdom was highly urbanised and extremely wealthy as a result of its favourable position on one of the main east-west trade routes.
Extremely Fine. Very well preserved for the type, without the usual test cut.
Demetrios I was the Seleukid satrap of Baktria, who seized the opportunity presented by the death of Antiochos II Theos to secede from the empire and declare himself king of Baktria. Justin (XLI, 4) tell us: 'Diodotus, the governor of the thousand cities of Baktria, defected and proclaimed himself king; all the other people of the Orient followed his example and seceded from the Macedonians.' The newly born kingdom was highly urbanised and extremely wealthy as a result of its favourable position on one of the main east-west trade routes.