Drachm - Heliocles imitation Indo-Scythian

These imitative issues were struck by Indo-Scythian authorities deliberately copying the types of Heliocles I or II — Greco-Bactrian kings whose political authority had collapsed under Scythian pressure by the late second century BC. The practice was common in transitional conquest periods: occupying powers borrowed the visual currency of legitimacy before establishing their own iconographic identity. Copper imitations of this type circulated widely in the frontier zones between Bactria and the northwestern Indian subcontinent during a period when coinage systems were genuinely in flux.