The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.354

c10.s1.354

Connected with this attitude of the Euthydemids may be the fact that Euthydemus, besides his tetradrachms on the Attic standard, struck lighter ones on a standard which has been called Persian,¹ Phoenician,² and purely arbitrary.³ It might have been due to scarcity of silver or some other economic reason;⁴ but it has also been attributed to a desire to please a native population accustomed to coins of lighter weight than the Attic.⁵ His successors all followed his policy, and ultimately a lighter standard was to become universal among the Greek kings in India.