The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.159

c10.s2.159

Like the other sons of Demetrius, these two kings did not take any distinctive title on their regular silver coins, but put on them their own portraits, royal title, and types, each using as type Zeus seated and holding in his hand a three-headed Hecate. It may be taken that Zeus is the elephant-god of Kapisa, as he was later, and that they successively coined in Alexandria-Kapisa; a sub-king of the Paropamisadae, being in charge of communications, could not well have his seat anywhere else but in the capital, and doubtless Seistan and Arachosia were actually administered by their satraps. It is also noteworthy that the portraits of these two kings on their silver issues are good Bactrian portraits of the ‘school of X’, and, as the portrait of Demetrius II on his bilingual Indian tetradrachm struck at Alexandria-Kapisa is not (in my judgment) ‘school of X’, but distinctly inferior, this may mean that Pantaleon brought a Bactrian artist with him; but the monogram on two of Agathocles’ silver coins seems to show that they were struck for him in Bactra (App. 1), and therefore all the silver of both kings may have been.