Tetradrachm - Diodotos II

Diodotos II succeeded his father — the satrap-turned-king Diodotos I — in consolidating Baktria's independence from the Seleucid Empire, a breakaway that Antiochus II had been too distracted by western wars to suppress. His reign was cut short when Euthydemos of Magnesia overthrew him, likely around 225 BC, founding a dynasty that would outlast the Diodotid line entirely. The political instability of the transition means coins attributable specifically to Diodotos II, rather than his father, remain genuinely difficult to distinguish and are scarcer in documented form.