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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eparch, post: 4268723, member: 89211&quot;][USER=91569]@Trebellianus[/USER] - lovely tet. </p><p>Holt&#039;s &quot;Into the land of Bones&quot; about Alexander the Great in the area is also interesting .</p><p><br /></p><p>My tets :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1087124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Antimachos I Theos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 180-170 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Diademed and draped bust right, wearing kausia / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIMAXOY, Poseidon, laureate, standing facing, holding trident and filleted palm; monogram to inner right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bopearachchi 1D; Mitchiner 124b; SNG ANS 276-7.HGC 12 106</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some scholars suggest Antimachos was a member of the Euthydemid dynasty and thus possibly a son of Euthydemos and brother of Demetrios. Other historians disagree however, and propose him as being independent of Euthydemid authority, probably a scion of some relation to the Diodotid dynasty. Antimachos was either defeated during his resistance to the usurper Eukratides, or his main territory was absorbed by the latter upon his death. Or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1087125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Indo-Greek Kingdom, Philoxenos Aniketos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 125-110 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANIKHTOY ΦΙΛOΞENOY, diademed, helmeted, draped and cuirassed bust right / &#039;Maharajasa apadihatasa Philasinasa&#039;, Philoxenos, in military attire, on horse rearing right; monogram to lower right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bopearachchi 5C; SNG ANS 1183-6; HGC 12&nbsp; 268</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Philoxenus Anicetus</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" rel="nofollow">Greek</a>: Φιλόξενος ὁ Ἀνίκητος; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithet" rel="nofollow">epithet</a> means &quot;the Invincible&quot;) was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek" rel="nofollow">Indo-Greek</a> king who ruled in the region spanning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paropamisade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paropamisade" rel="nofollow">Paropamisade</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_region" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_region" rel="nofollow">Punjab</a>. Philoxenus seems to have been quite an important king who might briefly have ruled most of the Indo-Greek territory. Bopearachchi dates Philoxenus to c. 100–95 BCE and R. C. Senior to c. 125–110 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Historians have not yet connected Philoxenus with any dynasty, but he could have been the father of the princess Kalliope, who was married to the king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaeus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaeus" rel="nofollow">Hermaeus</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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