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Stater - Heliokles II
| Issuer | Kings of Baktria |
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| Year | 90 BC - 75 BC |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔIKAIOY HΛIOKΛEOYΣ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Heliokles II ruled a shrinking Baktrian kingdom under sustained pressure from nomadic Saka and Yuezhi incursions that had already dismembered the eastern territories. His gold issues are rare by any measure — Bopearachchi series 1A is among the most sparsely documented in the entire Indo-Greek sequence, with known specimens countable in the low dozens. Whether this scarcity reflects a brief reign, a disrupted mint, or simply the chaos of a kingdom contracting under military pressure is still debated.
Not to be confused with Heliokles I, whose issues are considerably more plentiful and predate this ruler by roughly a century.