Elephant head right, with raised trunk, bell around neck,

bead and reel border around

Caduceus, Greek legend: at right: BAΣIΛEΩΣ at left: MAYOY,

monogram in left field

Weight: 8.97 gm. Diameter: 28 mm Die axis: 12 o'clock

This coin imitates type of the Bactrian king Demetrios l.

Maues was a king of this tribe who appears to have conquered territory in Kashmir and then acquired control of the area around Taxila in the Punjab. At this point, the Scythians were perhaps not as distinct from the Greeks as might be imagined, as considerable inter-marriage was probably taking place. There is a coin telling us that the so-called "Indo-Greek" king Artemidoros was the son of Maues. We also see this inter-mingling in the fact that most of Maues's coin types follow Greek prototypes.

The date of Maues is still not entirely clear.The traditional dates are c. 90-60 BCE, but Artemidoros is dated to c. 85 BCE, which suggests Maues should be earlier.