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1 Drachm - Apollodotus II
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom |
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| Year | 80 BC - 65 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of King Apollodotus II facing right, with characteristic Indo-Greek royal portrait style showing close-cropped hair and a royal diadem with flowing ties visible behind the neck. The effigy is rendered in a Hellenistic artistic tradition adapted to local coinage. A circular Greek legend surrounds the royal portrait in the field. |
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| Reverse script | Kharoshthi |
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Apollodotus II ruled one of the longest-documented reigns among the later Indo-Greek kings, yet the political geography he controlled was already fragmenting under pressure from Scythian incursions pushing through Arachosia and the Punjab. His silver coinage follows the bilingual convention — Greek on one face, Kharosthi on the other — that the Indo-Greeks had maintained since Menander I, reflecting a deliberate administrative accommodation of local populations rather than any concession of authority.
MIG 424 falls within a reign whose chronology scholars still debate by margins of a decade or more.