Fake Graeco-Bactrian Coins

In Uzbekistan a couple of years ago, I saw some Graeco-Bactrian coins for sale in a market.  The price alone (a couple of dollars each) indicated that they were fakes.  But can you spot the one very obvious clue that these were not produced in Hellenistic Bactria?

Graeco-Bactrian Fakes

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