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Tetradrachm - Diomedes
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 95 BC - 90 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Kharosthi |
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Diomedes ruled a shrinking Baktrian kingdom under sustained pressure from the Saka and Parthian incursions that were systematically dismantling Greek rule in the east during the late second and early first centuries BC. His coinage is bilingual — Greek on one face, Kharosthi on the other — reflecting the administrative reality of governing a population that had long since become predominantly non-Greek. This linguistic accommodation was not idealism; it was survival policy.
The Bopearachchi sequence places this type among the later issues of his reign, with relatively few dies recorded.