Coins of Polyxenos
Polyxenos, 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.
Polyxenos' 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 (Paropamisade, Arachosia) (c. 100 BCE) |
Succeeded by: Philoxenus |
| INDO-GREEK KINGS AND THEIR TERRITORIES Based on Bopearachchi (1991) |
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| Territories/ Dates |
PAROPAMISADE |
ARACHOSIA | GANDHARA | WESTERN PUNJAB | EASTERN PUNJAB | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200–190 BCE | Demetrius I | |||||||||||
| 190–180 BCE | Agathocles | Pantaleon | ||||||||||
| 185–170 BCE | Antimachus I | |||||||||||
| 180–160 BCE | Apollodotus I | |||||||||||
| 175–170 BCE | Demetrius II | |||||||||||
| 160–155 BCE | Antimachus II | |||||||||||
| 170–145 BCE | Eucratides | |||||||||||
| 155–130 BCE | Menander I | |||||||||||
| 130–120 BCE | Zoilos I | Agathokleia | ||||||||||
| 120–110 BCE | Lysias | Strato I | ||||||||||
| 110–100 BCE | Antialcidas | Heliokles II | ||||||||||
| 100 BCE | Polyxenios | Demetrius III | ||||||||||
| 100–95 BCE | Philoxenus | |||||||||||
| 95–90 BCE | Diomedes | Amyntas | Epander | |||||||||
| 90 BCE | Theophilos | Peukolaos | Thraso | |||||||||
| 90–85 BCE | Nicias | Menander II | Artemidoros | |||||||||
| 90–70 BCE | Hermaeus | Archebios | ||||||||||
| Yuezhi tribes | Maues (Indo-Scythian) | |||||||||||
| 75–70 BCE | Telephos | Apollodotus II | ||||||||||
| 65–55 BCE | Hippostratos | Dionysios | ||||||||||
| 55–35 BCE | Azes I (Indo-Scythian) | Zoilos II | ||||||||||
| 55–35 BCE | Apollophanes | |||||||||||
| 25 BCE – 10 CE | Strato II & III | |||||||||||
| Rajuvula (Indo-Scythian) | ||||||||||||
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