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[[File:Polyxenos round bilingual.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|<small>Coin of Polyxenus. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ "Of Illustrious and Saviour King Polyxenos".</small>]]<br />
[[File:Polyxenos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Coin of Polyxenos. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ "Of Illustrious and Saviour King Polyxenos".]]<br />
[[File:Polyxenos square bilingual.jpg |thumb|upright=1.5|Indian-standard coin of Polyxenos. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ "Of Illustrious and Saviour King Polyxenos".]]<br />
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'''Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Πολύξενος ὁ Ἐπιφανῆς, ὁ Σωτήρ}}; [[epithet]]s mean respectively, "the Illustrious", "the Saviour") was an [[Indo-Greek]] king who ruled briefly in western [[Punjab region|Punjab]] or [[Gandhara]].<br />
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==Time of reign==<br />
Bopearachchi places Polyxenos c. 100 BCE<ref>Bopearachchi (1998)</ref> and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE.<br />
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==Coins of Polyxenos==<br />
[[File:Coin of Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter.jpg|thumb|Coin of Polyxenos.]]<br />
Polyxenos, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of [[Strato I]]. Both kings used the epithets [[Soter]] [[wikt:Epiphanes|Epiphanes]] and the reverse of Athena Alkidemos (fighting [[Pallas Athene]]), the emblem of the dynasty of [[Menander I]]. Polyxenos also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her [[aegis]] on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver.<br />
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His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of her [[aegis]].<br />
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Polyxenos' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Straton I as well as the kings [[Heliokles II]] and [[Archebios]], according to [[Bopearachchi]] and RC Senior.<br />
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He was therefore likely to have been a brief contestant for power in the central Indo-Greek kingdom after the presumably violent death of Straton I, who was possibly his father.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*Osmund Bopearachchi, ''Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: American Numismatic Society, part 9, Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins'', 1998, American Numismatic Society, {{ISBN|0-89722-273-3}}.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://coinindia.com/galleries-polyxenus.html Catalog of the coins of Polyxenus]<br />
*[https://www.academia.edu/44738963/LE_ROI_POLYXENE_Le_Sauveur_Manifestation_de_Dieu_sur_Terre_Roi_Indo_Grec_Par_Roger_COTTEREAU_Mac%C3%A9doine_Royaume_de_Polyx%C3%A8ne Le Roi Polyxène]<br />
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{{s-aft|after=[[Philoxenus Anicetus|Philoxenus]]}}<br />
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