Description : Ancient Greek Oriental Baktria Gold Stater Diodotos II | | Vendors Description: BACTRIA, Kingdom of, Diodotos II, (256-239 B.C.), modern copy of gold stater, (8.43 grams), Bactra (Balkh) mint, issued after 256 (Newell suggests c.247 B.C.), obv. diademed head of Diodotos I to right, dotted border, rev. Zeus striding to left, aegis on his extended left arm, wielding a thunderbolt, at his feet an eagle to left, wreath above, to right **BASIL[EWS]* and to left ANTIOXOY, (S.7501). Extremely fine. |