page_title: Antialcidas
section_title: "Mule coins" (overstrikes)
hierarchical_section_title: Antialcidas / "Mule coins" (overstrikes)
caption_attribution_description: English: Seal of king on elephant receiving wreath of victory, India
context_page_description: Antialcidas Nikephoros was an Indo-Greek king of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, who reigned from his capital at Taxila. Bopearachchi has suggested that he ruled from ca. 115 to 95 BCE in the western parts of the Indo-Greek realms, whereas R. C. Senior places him around 130 to 120 BCE and also in eastern Punjab. Senior does however believe that he ruled in tandem with King Lysias.
context_section_description: There is a bronze which features the obverse of Lysias and the reverse of Antialcidas. This was interpreted by Tarn and other earlier scholars as though the two kings might have forged some kind of alliance, but later, a bronze with the opposite arrangement was found.
  Modern scholarship has however largely accepted that what was originally supposed to be a "joint issue" was in fact a mule; in other words, a mistake occurred in the process of overstriking the original coin, and it was accidentally issued with both king's standards.
caption: Gandhara seal of king on elephant receiving wreath of victory, a motif with some similarity to the coins of Antialcidas.
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