Didrachm

The attribution of this piece remains genuinely contested. The coinages of early Bactria before Diodotus I formally broke from the Seleucid empire around 255–250 BC are difficult to assign with confidence — mint infrastructure in the region was improvised, and several cities in the Oxus basin were capable of striking silver at roughly this standard. What is clear is that the political situation was fluid enough that a coin could change issuing authority mid-series without the dies themselves changing at all.