Silver tetradrachm of king Philoxenus(100-95 BC), Attic standard. [Source]
Obv: Helmetted, diademed and draped bust of Philoxenus.
Rev: King on prancing horse in military dress. [Greek legend BASILEOS ANIKETOU PHILOXENOU "Invincible King Pholoxenus".

Silver tetradrachm of king Philoxenus(100-95 BC). [Source]
Obv: Helmetted, diademed and draped bust of Philoxenus. Greek legend BASILEOS ANIKETOU PHILOXENOU "Invincible King Pholoxenus"
Rev: King on prancing horse in military dress. Kharoshti legend MAHARAJASA APADIHATASA PHILASINASA "Invincible King Philoxenus".

Philoxenus (100-95 BC) was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the region spanning the Paropamisadae to Western Punjab. Philoxenus seems to have been quite an important king who might briefly have ruled both the "Eastern" and "Western" Indo-Greek kingdoms.

Philoxenus cannot be connected with any dynasty: he uses an obverse with a mounted king, previously used only by Antimachus II sixty years earlier. Possibly, the horseman hints at an alliance with nomad tribes, who exercised a waxing influence over the Indo-Greeks during their twilight years.

Several later kings use this obverse as well, but their relationship to Philoxenus remains opaque.

Links

Coins of Philoxenus

See also

• Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
  
• Seleucid Empire
  
• Greco-Buddhism
  
• Indo-Scythians
  
• Indo-Parthian Kingdom
  
• Kushan Empire
  

References

The Greeks in Bactria and India (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)- , W.W. Tarn,