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Drachm - Epander
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 95 BC - 90 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ NIKHΦOPOY EΠANΔPOY (Translation: Of King Epander, the victorious) |
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| Reverse script | Kharosthi |
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Epander ruled a shrinking Indo-Greek territory in the Paropamisadae and adjacent regions during a period when Scythian pressure from the northwest was systematically dismantling Greek control of Baktria. His coinage is bilingual — Greek on one face, Kharoshthi on the other — reflecting the administrative reality of governing a population that had never been predominantly Hellenic. The drachm fabric he used follows the reduced weight standard that Indo-Greek kings adopted after losing access to the more productive western mints.
Epander appears in no surviving literary source. Everything known about his reign derives entirely from his coins.