Career
He ruled c. 25 Bachelor of Civil Engineering to 10 Civil Engineering according to Bopearachchi. R. C. Senior suggests that his reign ended perhaps a decade earlier. Strato II ruled in the eastern Punjab, probably retaining the capital of Sagala (modern Sialkot, Pakistan), or possibly to the city of Bucephala (Plutarch, p 48 n 5).
A few silver coins with a different portrait and the inscription Strato Soter Dikaios ("the just") may also belong to Strato III as sole ruler, or to a fourth king named Strato.
Just like the earlier king Strato I, the last Stratons I are thought to belong to the dynasty of Menander I, who also used the epithet Soter and the symbol of standing Pallas Athena. The chronology of the late Indo-Greek kingdom has been established by Bopearachchi and other scholars from numismatical evidence alone.
The coins deteriorated continuously, the Strato coins being the most debased and crude in style, a striking contrast to earlier kings who struck some of the most beautiful coins of antiquity. Strato II, III and Strato Dikaios struck debased silver drachms, which as mentioned portray Pallas on the reverse.
Strato II also issued bronzes and even lead coins of the common type Apollo/tripod.
