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Drachm - Antimachus II
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 174 BC - 165 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Winged Nike standing left, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a palm frond in her left. A monogram appears in the left field. The circular Greek legend surrounds the central type, naming the king with his royal epithet. The style is characteristic of Indo-Greek engraving, combining Hellenistic iconography with local artistic conventions. |
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| Reverse lettering | Maharajasa jayadharasa Amtimakhasa (Translation: King Victorious Antimachos) |
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Antimachus II is one of the more obscure Indo-Greek rulers, known almost entirely through his coins rather than any surviving literary record. He likely ruled a reduced territory in the Paropamisadae or Arachosia during a period of intense dynastic fragmentation following the death of Euthydemus I's line — precisely when the Indo-Greek realm was splintering into competing regional kingships that left little behind except coinage.
The SNG ANS 9 reference places this among a tightly catalogued group of bilingual issues, with Greek on one face and Kharoshthi on the other — an administrative necessity for governing populations that read neither script exclusively.