Polyxenios

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Coin of Polyxenios (r.c. 100 BCE).
Obv: Diademed bust of king Polyxenios. Greek legend: BASILEOS EPIFANOIS SOTIROS POLYXENOY "Saviour King Polyxenios, Manifestation of God on Earth"
Rev: Athena with buckler and throwing a thunderbolt. Kharoshthi legend: MAHARAJASA PRACACHASA TRATARASA PALASINASA "Saviour King Polyxenios, Manifestation of God on Earth".

Polyxenios was an Indo-Greek king who reigned around 100 BCE. His coins are associated with the dynasty of Menander I Soter and his son Strato I Soter Epiphanes in several ways: The titles are similar, the portraits show facial likeness, and they all use the characteristic obverse of the dynasty: a standing Athena.

Polyxenos shares all his mintmarks with Straton I as well as another "Eastern" Indo-Greek king, Heliokles II, according to numismatician Bopearachchi. He was therefore likely to have reigned somewhere in Punjab or Gandhara and seems to have been a brief contestant for the throne of the "Eastern" kingdom after the presumably violent death of his relative Straton I.

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