1 Tetradrachm Euthydem imitation, Sogdiana, Sogdian legend only

These pieces imitated the coinage of Euthydemus I of Bactria long after his death, a practice common among successor states and nomadic confederacies that inherited the economic infrastructure of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom without its Greek administration. By the time Sogdian minters were producing issues with exclusively Sogdian legends — dropping the Greek entirely — the political fiction of Bactrian continuity had been abandoned. The replacement of Greek script marks a conscious assertion of local authority during a period of severe disruption, likely tied to the Saka and Yuezhi incursions that dismembered Greco-Bactrian power across the Oxus region in the mid-second century BC.