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Tetradrachm - Plato Epiphanes
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 145 BC - 140 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ EΠIΦANOYΣ ΠΛAΤΩNOΣ |
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| Mintage | ND (145 BC - 140 BC) |
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Plato "Epiphanes" ruled Baktria for a compressed window in the mid-second century BC, likely as a usurper rather than a dynastic successor — his epithet, "the Manifest God," was a bold rhetorical claim for a king whose grip on power was evidently short-lived. He appears nowhere in ancient literary sources, known entirely through his coins.
The Baktrian kingdom was fracturing under simultaneous pressure from Parthian expansion to the west and Saka nomadic incursions from the northeast. Plato's coinage was almost certainly confined to a single mint, probably Bactra itself, and the relatively low number of recorded die pairs across all reference collections suggests a brief, troubled reign rather than administrative consolidation.