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Tetradrachm - Agathokleia and Strato I
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 135 BC - 125 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Nike (Victory) facing left, wearing a long chiton and holding a wreath extended in her right hand and a palm branch over her left shoulder; a monogram appears in the lower field beneath her feet. The figure is rendered in the Hellenistic style with fine detail to the drapery and wings. The Kharosthi legend runs around the full circumference of the coin in the border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Agathokleia almost certainly ruled as regent following the death of Menander I, issuing coinage in the names of both herself and the young Strato I — a joint authority that is virtually unique among the Indo-Greek dynasts. The bilingual format of these coins, Greek on one face and Kharoshthi on the other, reflects the administrative reality of governing territories deep into the Indian subcontinent, where Hellenic bureaucratic conventions carried little practical weight without a vernacular counterpart.
SNG ANS 987 anchors this type firmly within the sequence established for the Paropamisadae and Gandhara regions. Agathokleia is one of only three women known to have issued coins in their own name among the entire Indo-Greek succession.