Editing Strato II (section)

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{{Infobox royalty
| name            =Strato II 
| succession      =[[Indo-Greek]] king
| image           = Rajuvula coin Northern Satrap with Greek legend and Athena Alkidemos.jpg
| religion        = [[Greco-Buddhism]]
| caption         =[[Saka]] imitation of Strato II
| reign           =25 BCE – 10 CE
|predecessor=[[Menander II]] (dynastically)|successor=[[Strato III]]| death_date      = 10 CE 
| death_place     = [[Mathura]]
|}}
[[File:Strato_II_fine.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|<small>Coin of Strato II.<br>'''Obv:''' Bust of Strato II. Greek legend: BASILEOS SOTEROS STRATONOS "Of King Strato the Savior".<br>'''Rev:''' [[Athena]] holding a thunderbolt. [[Kharoshthi]] legend: MAHARAJASA TRATARASA STRATASA "King Strato the Saviour".</small>]]
'''Strato II''' '''[[Soter]]''' ({{langx|grc|Στράτων B΄ ὁ Σωτήρ}}, ''Strátōn B΄ ho Sotḗr''; [[epithet]] means "the Saviour") also known as '''Stratha''', was an [[Indo-Greek]] king. He ruled {{Circa|25&nbsp;BCE}} to 10 CE according to Bopearachchi. R. C. Senior suggests that his reign ended perhaps a decade earlier. He may have been supplanted by the [[Indo-Scythian]] [[Northern Satraps]], particularly [[Rajuvula]] and [[Bhadayasa]], whose coins were often copied on those of the last Indo-Greek kings.<ref name="Rosenfield">The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans, John M. Rosenfield, University of California Press, 1967, p.135 [https://books.google.com/books?id=udnBkQhzHH4C&pg=PA135]</ref> Numerous coins of Rajuvula have been found in company with the coins of the Strato group in the [[Punjab, India|Eastern Punjab]] (to the east of the [[Jhelum]]) and also in the [[Mathura]] area:<ref>Mathurā and Its Society: The ʼSakæ-Pahlava Phase, Bratindra Nath Mukherjee, Firma K.L.M., 1981, p.9</ref> for example, 96 coins of Strato II were found in Mathura in conjunction with coins of [[Rajuvula]], who also imitated the designs of Strato II in the majority of his issues.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan63894/pdf |title=Bibliography of Greek coin hoards, p. 194-195 |access-date=2016-12-08 |archive-date=2018-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525113741/http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan63894/pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>