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Eucratides I

r. c. 170–145 BCE · 2nd century BCE · Also known as Eucratides the Great

Eucratides I was a Greco-Bactrian king who seized power around 170 BCE, overthrowing the Euthydemid dynasty and fighting the Indo-Greek kings south of the Hindu Kush. He issued some of the finest Hellenistic coins, including the largest gold coin of antiquity, a twenty-stater piece. He was murdered around 145 BCE, reportedly by his own son, and soon afterwards Bactria fell to nomad invaders.

Eucratides I
Image: Eucratides I / BnF · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

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