India: Azes II in armour, riding a horse, on one of his silver tetradrachms, minted in Gandhara.

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. Image released into the Public Domain by World Imaging.

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