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| caption         =Portrait Polyxenus.
| reign           =c. 100 BCE
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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>]]
[[File:Polyxenos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Coin of Polyxenos. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΠΟΛΥΞΕΝΟΥ "Of Illustrious and Saviour King Polyxenos".]]
[[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".]]

'''Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter''' ({{langx|grc|Πολύξενος Ἐπιφανῆς Σωτήρ|Polyxenos Epiphanēs Sōtēr}}, "Polyxenus the Illustrious Saviour") was an [[Indo-Greek]] king who ruled briefly in western [[Punjab region|Punjab]] or [[Gandhara]].

==Date==
[[Osmund Bopearachchi]] places Polyxenus c. 100 BCE<ref>Bopearachchi (1998)</ref> and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE.

==Coinage==
Polyxenus, 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 Alcidemus (fighting [[Pallas Athene]]), the emblem of the dynasty of [[Menander I]]. Polyxenus also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her [[aegis]] on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver.

His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of her [[aegis]].

Polyxenus' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Strato I as well as [[Heliocles II]] and [[Archebius]], according to Bopearachchi and RC Senior.

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.

==Notes==
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==References==
*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}}.

==External links==
*[http://coinindia.com/galleries-polyxenus.html Catalog of the coins of Polyxenus]
*[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]

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{{s-bef|before=[[Heliocles II]] (?)}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Indo-Greek Kingdom|Indo-Greek]] ruler in [[Paropamisade]], [[Arachosia]]|years=c. 100 BCE}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Philoxenus Anicetus|Philoxenus]]}}
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[[Category:Indo-Greek kings]]
[[Category:1st-century monarchs in Asia]]

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