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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Bactrian Kingdom| > WA88316
Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Eukratides I the Great, c. 170 - 145 B.C.
|Bactrian| |Kingdom|, |Greco-Baktrian| |Kingdom,| |Eukratides| |I| |the| |Great,| |c.| |170| |-| |145| |B.C.|, Eucratides I the Great came to the throne by overthrowing the dynasty of Euthydemus I and became one of the most important Greco-Bactrian kings. Eucratides had a vast and prestigious coinage, suggesting a rule of considerable importance. He fought against the Indo-Greek kings, the easternmost Hellenistic rulers in northwestern India, temporarily holding territory as far as the Indus, until he was finally defeated and pushed back to Bactria. Justin ends his account of Eucratides' life by claiming he was murdered on his way back from India by his own son, who hated his father so much that he dragged his dead body behind his chariot.
WA88316. Bronze square 4 units, Bopearachchi Serie 19i, Mitchiner IGIS 190d, SNG ANS 551, SNG Cop 280, HGC 12 146 (S), aVF, dark patina, highlighting earthen deposits, weight 9.168g, maximum diameter 30.2mm, die axis 0o, c. 170 - 145 B.C.; obverse helmeted bust of king right, Boiotian helmet crested and ornamented with ear and horn of a bull, BAΣIΛEΩΣ (king) upward on left, MEΓAΛOY (great) above, EYKPATIΔOY (Eukratides) below; reverse the Dioscuri on horseback galloping right, each holding palm frond and couched spear, ΓΩ monogram lower right, Karosthi legend: Maharajasa Evukratidasa (of King Eukratides, the Great) above and below; ex Ancient Imports (Marc Breitsprecher); scarce; SOLD










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