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Tetradrachm - Diomedes
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 95 BC - 90 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm (305-15BC) |
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| Obverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ ΔIOMHΔOY |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Diomedes ruled a shrinking Baktrian rump state during the final decades before Indo-Scythian pressure from the north and Parthian encroachment from the west effectively ended Greek kingship in the region. His coinage is bilingual — Greek on one face, Kharoshthi on the other — a practical concession to a population that had long since ceased to be primarily Hellenic. The type is rare enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete, and individual specimens frequently revise existing attribution sequences.