The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c31.38

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The evidence for this is supplied by the coins of Azes I and Azilises, who not only continue the issues of Maues (*Summary*, pp. 587–9), but also strike a number of additional types which are manifestly borrowed from those of the Yavāna princes whose kingdoms they conquered¹. The most noteworthy of these is the *rev.* type ‘Athene Promachos’ which is characteristic of the families of Apollodotus and Menander in the eastern Punjab. It appears on coins of Azes I, but not on those of Maues (*Summary*, p. 589). Such additional types bear witness to a considerable extension of the Çaka dominions, and seem to indicate that after the reign of Maues the house of Euthydemus was extinguished and Yavāna rule in the Punjab brought to an end. The house of Eucratides, now probably represented by its last king, Hermaeus, still continued for a while to hold the upper Kābul valley—the base from which the Yavāna power had first extended to Arachosia and to India.