Tetradrachm - Abdagases I - 12 BC-130 AD Province of Arachosia

Abdagases I ruled the Indo-Parthian kingdom's eastern territories as a subordinate or successor figure to Gondophares, whose reign is historically entangled with the apocryphal tradition of Saint Thomas the Apostle's mission to India. The Arachosian provincial issues attributed to Abdagases represent the administrative persistence of Indo-Parthian control in what is now southern Afghanistan and Pakistan's Balochistan region, even as Kushan pressure from the north was steadily dismantling the kingdom's coherence.

Billon issues of this type show considerable alloy variation across dies, reflecting decentralized or degraded mint control rather than a single consistent standard.