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Drachm - Strato II
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 25 BC - 10 AD |
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| Weight | 2.35 g |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped bust of Strato II facing right, wearing a crested helmet adorned with a diadem; the king is depicted in the Indo-Greek artistic tradition with fine engraving of facial features and drapery folds. The effigy is rendered in three-quarter view, characteristic of late Indo-Greek coinage. Surrounding the bust, the Greek legend reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΟΣ (of King Strato the Saviour), disposed in a circular arrangement around the field. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Strato II ruled the last gasping fragment of Indo-Greek territory in the Punjab at a moment when Scythian pressure had already extinguished every other Greek kingdom east of the Euphrates. His coinage — bilingual in Greek and Kharosthi — was a practical concession to a population that had largely abandoned Greek as a living administrative language. The kingdom ended with him, almost certainly absorbed by the Apracharajas or Indo-Scythian rulers sometime in the early first century AD.