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Drachm - Menander II Nike advancing, monogram left
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 85 BC |
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| Weight | 2.37 g |
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| Obverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔIKAIOY MENANΔPOY |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Menander II is one of the more obscure Indo-Greek rulers, his reign reconstructed almost entirely from coinage rather than written sources. He ruled a shrinking kingdom during a period of sustained pressure from Scythian incursions from the northwest — the same migrations that would eventually extinguish Indo-Greek rule entirely within decades of his death. The monogram on this issue has been used by scholars including Bopearachchi to tentatively assign mint attributions, though no Indo-Greek mint site has ever been archaeologically confirmed.