Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter
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Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter (
Punjab or Gandhara
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Date
Osmund Bopearachchi places Polyxenus c. 100 BCE[1] and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE.
Coinage
Polyxenus, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of
Pallas Athene), the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenus 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.
Polyxenus' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Strato I as well as Heliocles II and Archebius, 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.
Notes
- ^ Bopearachchi (1998)
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.