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Æ - Euthydemos I
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 225 BC - 195 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Euthydemos I seized the Baktrian throne by overthrowing Diodotos II sometime around 230 BC, founding a dynasty that would outlast him by generations. His legitimacy was tested almost immediately by Antiochos III, who crossed the Hindu Kush and besieged Euthydemos at Baktra for two years before negotiating a settlement — acknowledging him as king in exchange for war elephants and supplies. That treaty, concluded around 206 BC, effectively confirmed Baktria's independence from Seleukid authority for good.
Bronze issues of this reign circulated across a region where Greek urban culture and Central Asian trade networks overlapped in ways that have no parallel elsewhere in the Hellenistic world.