Set Description
Weight: 17.00 gm., Diam: 32 mm., Die axis: 12 h
Helmeted and diademed bust of king facing right, bead and reel border around,
the helmet plumed and decorated with the ear and horn of a bull,
Greek legend: BASI?EYS MEGAS / EYKPATI?HS (Great King Eucratides) /
Jugate busts of Heliocles and Laodice, Laodice wearing diadem,
Greek legend: H?IOK?EOYS / KAI ?AO?IKHS (Heliocles and Laodice),
Bead and reel border around
Heliocles and Laodice were presumably the parents of Eucratides. Since only Laodice wears the diadem (the thin band running over her head), we can infer that she alone was of royal blood. An interesting aspect of the legends on this coin is that they are in the nominative, rather than the usuual genitive, case.