Category: Bactria & Central Asia

Euthydemus himself was born around 260 BC in Ionia, on the west coast of Asia Minor, some 3,100 miles from the Bactrian capital at Ai Khanoum he would later rule from. This shows how fluid the Greek-speaking world was in the 3rdcentury BC – the height of Greek cultural influence across western Asia. Migration –…

Its design imitates the famous issues of Athens, probably the most recognizable coin in the world at the time. Imitations of Athens tetradrachms were struck in Egypt and the Near East in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, but they were of a style very similar to Athens issues. The Bactrian coins, though retaining the…