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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Co1ns, post: 2751636, member: 87765&quot;]Thanks TH, much appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found this on Wikipedia ... the coins with more detailed busts may have been minted by more experienced artisans in the western side of the kindom, whereas the ones with sloppier busts may have been minted by less experienced workers in newly opened eastern Punjab mints:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; The coins of Apollodotus II are of different qualities. Some still have the realistic portraits characteristic of the earlier Indo-Greek coins, and Bopearachchi attributes these series to the western part of his kingdom. Others are badly struck and/or have clumsy and distorted portraits, and these Bopearachchi interprets as belonging to newly opened mints in eastern Punjab, presumably struck by Indian celators with little knowledge of Greek engraving skills. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodotus_II#Coins_of_Apollodotus_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodotus_II#Coins_of_Apollodotus_II" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodotus_II#Coins_of_Apollodotus_II</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I need to do a little more research re: this ruler, that page only mentions him ruling in Punjab, refers to the &#039;Indo-Greek&#039; kingdom and makes no mention of Baktria or the areas traditionally attributed to Baktria (Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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