The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s2.7

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Numismatists usually distinguish between an earlier Antimachus I Θεός and a later Antimachus II Νικηφόρος (Pl. VI, 3); but it seems more probable that the coins assigned to these are merely the Bactrian and the Indian issues of the same monarch. The two classes are connected by their types; and the difference between them may well be local rather than chronological. They represent the workmanship of districts separated by some hundreds of miles and dissimilar in culture. They find their parallels in the coinages of other Graeco-Indian kings, viz. Demetrius, Eucratides, and Heliocles. Like the title Ἀνίκητος, which is borne by Demetrius, the Νικηφόρος of Antimachus has reference to Indian conquests and is not found on the coins struck in Bactria.