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Tetradrachm - Philoxenos Aniketos
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 100 BC - 95 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 95 BC) |
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Philoxenos, who styled himself "Aniketos" (the Unconquered), ruled a shrinking Indo-Greek territory in the Paropamisadae and Arachosia during a period when Scythian pressure from the north was systematically dismantling Greek power in Bactria and the upper Indus. His coinage is bilingual — Greek on one face, Kharoshthi on the other — reflecting the administrative reality of governing populations for whom Hellenistic royal convention meant little. Bopearachchi's sequencing places him late in the dynasty, and the tight five-year window assigned to his reign is more inference than documented record.