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India: Silver coin of King Azes II (r.c. 35-12 BCE). Buddhist triratna symbol in the left field on the reverse.

India: Silver coin of King Azes II (r.c. 35-12 BCE). Buddhist triratna symbol in the left field on the reverse.

Azes II (reigned circa 35-12 BCE), may have been the last Indo-Scythian king in northern India. After the death of Azes II, the rule of the Indo-Scythians in northwestern India finally crumbled with the conquest of the Kushans, one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who had lived in Bactria for more than a century, and who were then expanding into India to create a Kushan Empire.

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