The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s2.9

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The copper coins of Apollodotus bear types ‘Apollo: Tripod’ in evident allusion to the king’s name (Pl. VI, 4). These were re-struck by Eucratides with his own types in the kingdom of Kāpiça (Kāfiristān) immediately to the south of the Hindu Kush (p. 555; Pl. VII, 36). The types of the silver coins, ‘Elephant: Indian bull’ (Pl. VI, 7) which may have symbolised the tutelary divinities of cities, are commonly found on the earlier native coinages of the N.W., and the Indian bull is more particularly characteristic of Pushkalāvatī (Chārsadda) in the Peshāwar District (p. 557). These types continued to be struck by Heliocles (Pl. VI, 8). The coins thus show most clearly the transference of the upper and lower Kābul valleys from one Yavana house to the other, and they determine the date of Apollodotus I: he was, like Demetrius, the contemporary of Eucratides, who was the predecessor of Heliocles.