Greek Baktrian Kingdom Plato

Nearly all that is known about the history of the Greco-Baktrian kingdom is derived from numismatic sources, and this coin makes its own worthy contribution to the historical record. Coins featuring Plato of Baktria are extremely rare owing to the brevity of his reign, estimated to be around five years or less. While all of Plato's coins are considered extremely rare, the helmeted tetradrachms stand apart as being rarer by another order of magnitude

Almost nothing is known about the circumstances of life or his rise to power, except that it coincided with the death of the previous king, Eukratides I the Great, who had successfully supplanted the earlier Euthydemid dynasty and expanded the borders of the Greco-Baktrian territories...

Okumaya devam et...