Gold 20 Stater, Eucratides, Bactria

Eucratides Bactria Gold 20 Stater, the largest gold coin of antiquity. Euc. was king of Bactria and then of N. India from about 171-145 BCE. Possibly a

cousin of Antiochus IV. Reverse-chariot w. Greek

-of great king Eucratides-

Bactria was a Zoroastrian Indo-Aryan land, roughly todays Balkh province of NW Afghanistan.

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