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Tetradrachm - Zoilos I Dikaios
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 130 BC - 120 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Bop#1, SNG ANS 9#966, HGC 12#216 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (130 BC - 120 BC) |
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Zoilos I ruled a shrinking Baktrian kingdom under sustained pressure from the Yuezhi migrations that had already displaced the Sakas southward and were steadily dismantling Greek hold on the region. His epithet Dikaios — "the Just" — appears on no earlier Baktrian royal coinage, suggesting a deliberate legitimizing claim, possibly in response to contested succession after Agathokles II or political fragmentation among the Indo-Greek dynasts competing for the same territories. By his reign, the eastern satrapies were effectively gone.