Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter
Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter was an Indo-Greek king who ruled briefly in western Punjab or Gandhara.Time of reign
Bopearachchi places Polyxenos c. 100 BCE and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE.Coins of Polyxenos
Polyxenos, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of Strato I. Both kings used the epithets Soter and the reverse of Athena Alkidemos, the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenos also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her aegis on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver.
His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of her aegis.
Polyxenos' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Straton I as well as the kings Heliokles II and Archebios, according to Bopearachchi and RC Senior.
He was therefore likely to have been a brief contestant for power in the central Indo-Greek kingdom after the presumably violent death of Straton I, who was possibly his father.
