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A novel difference of the Indo-Scythians was to show the king on a horse, rather than his bust in profile as did the Greeks. Other coins of Azes depict the Buddhist lion and the Brahmanic cow of Shiva, suggesting religious tolerance towards his subjects. In the coin depicted to the left Azes is depicted with the inscriptions:
Coin of Maues depicting Balarama, 1st century BCE (British Museum) A coin of the Indo-Scythian king Azes. The presence of the Scythians in modern Pakistan and north-western India during the first century BCE was contemporaneous with the Indo-Greek kingdoms there, and they apparently initially recognized the power of the local Greek rulers.
Richard Bertram Whitehead (6 November 1879 – 4 March 1967), usually cited as R. B. Whitehead, was a British numismatist and an authority on Indian coins. He played "a major role in establishing the study of coinage as an essential technique of Indian historical research", for which he received numerous awards and honours, and was the first Honorary Fellow of the Numismatic Society of India.
Nahapana (Ancient Greek: Ναηαπάνα Nahapána; Kharosthi: 𐨣𐨱𐨤𐨣 Na-ha-pa-na, Nahapana; [4] Brahmi: Na-ha-pā-na, Nahapāna; [4]), was an important ruler of the Western Kshatrapas, descendant of the Indo-Scythians, in northwestern India, who ruled during the 1st or 2nd century CE. According to one of his coins, he was the son of ...
Azes I (Greek: Ἄζης Azēs, epigraphically ΑΖΟΥ Azou; Kharosthi: 𐨀𐨩 A-ya, Aya [1]) was an Indo-Scythian ruler who ruled around c. 48/47 BCE – 25 BCE [2] with a dynastic empire based in the Punjab and Indus Valley, [3] completed the domination of the Scythians in the northwestern Indian subcontinent.
Artemidorus is a Greek name meaning "gift of Artemis", and has traditionally been seen as an Indo-Greek king. His remaining coins generally feature portraits of Artemidorus and Hellenistic deities and are typical of Indo-Greek rulers, but on a coin described by numismatician R. C. Senior, Artemidorus seems to claim to be the son of the Indo-Scythian king Maues.
Azilises (Greek: Αζιλίσης Azilísēs, ΑΖΙΛΙΣΟΥ Azilisou (epigraphic); Kharosthi: 𐨀𐨩𐨁𐨫𐨁𐨮 A-yi-li-ṣa, Ayiliṣa [1]) was an Indo-Scythian king who ruled in the area of Gandhara circa 57-35 BCE.
Monnaies Gréco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques, by Osmund Bopearachchi, 1991.. Osmund Bopearachchi (born 1949) is a Sri Lankan historian and numismatist who has specialized notably standardized the coinage of the Indo-Greek and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms.