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===Bronze coinage=== In addition to the precious metal coinage, Euthydemus also produced bronze coins. Almost all have a bearded male head, identified as Heracles, on the obverse and a rearing horse on the reverse with the legend ΞΞΞ£ΞΞΞΩΣ ΞΞ₯ΞΞ₯ΞΞΞΞΞ₯ ('of King Euthydemos'). The earlier coins have thick [[planchet|flan]]s with beveled edges (like the bronze of the Diodotids) and no monograms. These coins were issued in four denominations, referred to by modern scholars as a double unit (5.26-11.82 g), a single unit (2.95-5.07 g), a half unit (1.47-2.28 g), and a quarter unit (0.76-0.79 g). Some of the quarter units have a horse's head or a trident on the reverse instead of the usual reverse type.{{sfn|Glenn|2020|pp=81β82}} Apparently later issues have thinner, flat flans. These bronzes were minted in the double, single, and half denominations. Most of them have no monograms, but some of them bear the ΑΠsymbol associated with Groups IV-VII at Mint B, and a few have a trident, anchor with ΞΞ, or an Ξ.{{sfn|Glenn|2020|pp=83β84}} The anchor was one of the main symbols of the Seleucid dynasty and ΞΞ is a monogram used by the Seleucids, so Holt interpreted it as commemorating Euthydemus' treaty with Antiochus III in 206 BC.{{sfn|Holt|1999|p=132}} Simon Glenn is sceptical of this argument, seeing the anchor and other symbols as control marks, but he entertains the possibility that the anchor indicates "a shared production process" between the anchor bronzes and the coinage produced by Antiochus III in Bactria.{{sfn|Glenn|2020|pp=83β84}}
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