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Tetradrachm - Artemidorus
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 100 BC - 80 BC |
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| Weight | 9.62 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | 营 Special Army Unit (御营廳(Oyongchong)), modern-day Seoul, South Korea (1675-1752) |
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Artemidorus ruled for what appears to have been an extremely brief period in the fragmented late Baktrian political landscape, and his coinage survives in such small numbers that reconstructing even a rough chronology of his reign remains contested among specialists. He is sometimes identified as a son or subordinate of Apollodotus I, an association drawn primarily from shared iconographic conventions rather than any documentary evidence. The kingdom was by this point splintering under pressure from nomadic incursions from the north and rival Indo-Greek dynasts to the south and east.
Bopearachchi's die studies place the total known output as exceptionally limited.