Stater - Heliokles II

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.