Monday, 3 July 2023

A TIMELESS EUCRATIDES COIN IS THE SEAL OF DA AFGHANISTAN BANK

 


The seal of Da Afghanistan Bank has the name of the bank in Pashto at the top and Latin script at the bottom, the year 1939 in which it was established, and a depiction of a Eucratides I-era coin with the Greek text, "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ" which means "Of the great King Eucratides".

On  the coin reverse, Eucratides chose to place the Dioscuri, the sons of Zeus, Castor and Pollux. Quite possibly, this was to emphasize his own royal ancestry. The monolingual coinage used only Greek legends and conformed to the Attic weight standard. It was issued in Bactria, north of the Hindu Kush mountains. 




Edited from Coins of India 

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