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.
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.