Drachm - Lysias

Lysias ruled a shrinking kingdom. By the time his coins were struck, the Indo-Greek realm had already begun fracturing under pressure from Śaka and Yuezhi incursions pushing south through Bactria, leaving individual kings to hold whatever territory they could. His silver drachms circulated in a region where Greek administrative structures were visibly thinning, and the bilingual Kharoshthi-Greek legends on his coinage reflect a deliberate accommodation of the local population rather than any lingering Hellenistic confidence.

The MIG 262b attribution places this among the rarer square-flan varieties documented by Mitchiner.