 Silver coin of king Agathocles r.c. 185- 170. Obv: Bust of Agathocles, with Greek legend ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ "Diodotus the saviour" Rev: Zeus wielding fulmen, with Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΟΝΤΟΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ "King Agathocles the Just". Agathocles was a son of Demetrius and one of his sub-kings in charge of the Paropamisadae between Bactria and India. He was a grandson of Euthydemus whom he qualified as "God-King" on his coins.
He was contemporary with or a successor of king Pantaleon. He seems to have been attacked and killed by the usurper Eucratides, who took control of the Greco-Bactrian territory.
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