Polyxenios

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Polyxenios Epiphanes Soter "the Illustrious and Saviour" was an Indo-Greek king who ruled briefly in western Punjab or Gandhara.

Contents 1 Time of reign 2 Coins of Polyxenios 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Time of reign

Bopearachchi places Polyxenios c. 100 BCE^[1] and RC Senior c. 85-80 BCE.

[edit] Coins of Polyxenios

Polyxenios, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of Strato I. Both kings used the epithets Soter Epiphanes and the reverse of Athena Alkidemos (fighting Pallas Athene), the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenios also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her aegis on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver.

His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of her aegis.

Polyxenios' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Straton I as well as the kings Heliokles II and Archebios, according to Bopearachchi and RC Senior.

He was therefore likely to have been a brief contestant for power in the central Indo-Greek kingdom after the presumably violent death of Straton I, who was possibly his father.

Preceded by: Heliokles II?

Indo-Greek Ruler (Paropamisadae, Arachosia) (c. 100 BCE)

Succeeded by: Philoxenus

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Osmund Bopearachchi, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: American Numismatic Society, part 9, Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins, 1998, American Numismatic Society, ISBN 0-89722-273-3.