Post by Jens Jakobsson
Numismatists gathered for the conference at the University of Reading, April 2016.
The RNS kindly granted me funds from the Neil Kreitman Central Asian Numismatic Endowment last year to participate in the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network‘s conference on Central Asia at Reading University, 15-17 April, 2016, arranged by Dr. Rachel Mairs. I gave a speech about evidence for the later dating (“low chronology”) of Bactria’s independence, based on my research on the coinage of the Diodotid kings and overlooked sources. Several Bactrian numismatists contributed and we established valuable contacts. A paper based on my speech will hopefully be published next year. In the meantime, the following tentative chronology was suggested by my paper:
* Antiochos II 261-246 BC
(posthumous coins of Antiochos I
issued in Bactria until at least 255 BC).
* Diodotos I c.245-238 BC
* Diodotos II c.238-230 BC
* Antiochos Nikator c.230-222 BC
* Euthydemos I c.222-190 BC
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