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Drachm - Menander II
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 85 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Menander II depicted as a mounted warrior in full military attire, riding a prancing horse to the right, evoking a dynamic equestrian composition typical of late Indo-Greek royal imagery. The rider raises his right hand in a gesture of authority or salute. A rectangular monogram appears in the lower right field. The reverse legend in Kharosthi script encircles the design. |
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| Mintage | ND (90 BC - 85 BC) |
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Menander II ruled a shrinking Indo-Greek territory in the late 1st century BC, a period when the kingdom was fragmenting under pressure from Indo-Scythian incursions from the northwest. He is one of several late Indo-Greek kings whose historical record exists almost entirely through numismatic evidence — no literary source names him with any confidence, and his reign boundaries are reconstructed almost entirely from coin finds and hoards.
MIG 230 places him in Bopearachchi's sequence of late Paropamisadae rulers, though his exact relationship to contemporaneous kings like Archebius remains debated among specialists.