Drachm - Menander II Nike advancing, monogram left

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.