Afghanistan: A gold stater of the Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter, minted at Ai-Khanoum, c. 275 BCE. Photo by Rami Nurmai (CC BY-SA License). Obverse: Diademed head of Antiochus. Reverse: Nude Apollo seated on an omphalos (religious stone), leaning on bow and holding two arrows. Ai-Khanoum or Ay Khanum ( 'Lady of the Moon' in Uzbek, probably the historical Alexandria on the Oxus, also possibly named Eucratidia), was founded in the 4th century BCE, following the conquests of Alexander the Great and was one of the primary cities of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.

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