Quadruple Unit - Heliokles II Taxila

Heliokles II is one of the more elusive figures in the fragmented political geography of late Baktrian rule — a king whose coins turn up primarily in the Taxila region, suggesting his authority was confined to the eastern margins of what had once been a far larger Greek kingdom. By his reign, the Indo-Greek world was contracting under sustained Saka pressure from the northwest, and the Taxila mint operated in an environment of genuine political instability rather than imperial confidence.

The Bopearachchi classification 5A places this among the earlier dies of the type. Taxila excavations have produced examples in stratified layers consistent with the closing decades of the first century BC.