54

GREEK KINGS OF BACTE1A AND INDIA

Metal
No.

Obverse

Reverse

M
37S

374-377

378

379

380

381

MENANDER
King of N.W. India

(a) Type: diademed bust of king, and Pallas to left;
silver^ round

below, MEN AN A

Diademed bust of king to r.
Greek legend, above,

ZQTHPOS;
POY.

W. 140.
8. 1.

W. 140-145.
8. 1.

S.I.

Pallas to L as on No. 254. Kfa.
legend, above, Maharajasa trata-
rasa; below, Menadras®,

In r. field M. 32.
In 1. field Z.

As on No. 373; same mono-
grams.
G. B. PL VI.

As on No. 373, but monograms:
In r. field M. 32.
In 1. field M. 63.

(j8) Type; helmeted bust of king, and Pallas to left;
silver, round

Diademed bust of king to r.,
wearing a crested helmet. Greek
legend as on No. 373.

W. 135.
8.1.

W, 125.
S. 1.

8. 1.

As on No. 373; same mono-

grams.

PI. VI.

G.B.

As on No. 379, but monogram
in L field M. 63.

yet come across any reproductions of the copper piece. The hemidrachm helps us to place this
new ruler. It is very similar to a common issue of Strato I. The copper coin is different,
ttxe reverse design being like that on the copper coins of Antimachos Nikephoros, But the
titles ETIIc|>ANH]E ZD.T HP, exhibited by the silver hemi drachm, are again used. Both
coins bear monograms often found on the coins of Strato. I should be inclined to consider
Polyxenos a close relation, and the successor of Strato, in all, or part of the latter king's
dominions. His reign can have had only a brief duration.