Zoilos I
-120 BCE).
Obv. Diademed and draped bust of Strato I. Greek legend BASILEOS DIKAIU ZOILOU "King Zoilus the Just"
Rev. Crowned Herakles holding wreath, with club over the arm and lion skin (type of Euthydemus II. Kharoshthi legend: MAHARAJASA DHARMIKASA JOILASA "King Zoilus, of the Dharma". Zoilus I Dikaios ("The Just") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled between around 130-120 BCE in Northern India in the area of Punjab. He was probably a successor of King Strato I. His territory extended from the mid-Punjab at the Jhelum River in the West to Mathura in the East, with the probable capital at Sagala (modern Sialkot) in the northern Punjab, or possibly to the city of Bucephala (Plutarch, p. 48 n. 5).
Coin types of Zoilos I:
Zoilos I uses a coin type similar to that of Euthydemus II, son of Demetrius: Crowned Herakles standing, holding a wreath or diadem in his right hand, and a club and the lion skin in his left hand.
His square coins are original in that they combine the club with a Scythian-type bowcase (for a short recurve bow), indicating contacts or even an alliance with horse-mounted people originating from the steppes.
Image:ZoilosI-524.jpg|Zoilos I and Herakles.
Image:ZoilosI-525.jpg|Zoilos I and Herakles, with Nike on his shoulder crowning him.
Image:ZoilosI.jpg|Bust of Herakles, club and a steppe-type recurve bow's bowcase on reverse, inside a victory wreath.
Monograms:
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See also Indo-Greek Kingdom Greco-Buddhism Indo-Scythians
References "The Greeks in Bactria and India" W.W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press
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Main coins of Zoilus I
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