[ 5790] APOLLODOTOS I, c.160-150 B.C. Square Silver Drachm 20mm (2.35gm.) 100 B.C. Indo-Greek Standard. Reference: Mitchiner 207a. BMC India 34,3. Elephant standing right; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ behind, ΑΠΟΛΛΟΔΟΤΟΥ above, ΣΩTΗΡΟΣ before; KP monogram beneath. Humped bull standing right, Karosthi legend around; ΔΑ monogram beneath. Provided with certificate of authenticity. CERTIFIED AUTHENTIC by Sergey Nechayev, PhD - Numismatic Expert From the reign of Apollodotus II, around 80 BCE, Kharoshthi letters started to be used as mintmarks on coins in combination with Greek monograms and mintmarks, suggests the participation of local technicians to the minting process. Before arrival of Indo-Greeks, local population of his newly acquired kingdom had been using rectangular/square shaped punch-marked coins for most transactions. Perhaps this fact had influenced him to issue square shaped, bilingual coinage, which can be accepted readily by local merchants. Also, to keep up with Indian tradition of punching animals like Elephant and Bull on punch-marked coin, his coins also bear these two animals. The legends on reverse are in Prakrit, written in Kharoshthi script. Incidentally, these bilingual coins of the Indo-Greeks were the key in the decipherment of the Kharoshthi script by James Prinsep (1799-1840). Kharoshthi became extinct around the 3rd century CE. Payment & Shipping: Will accept payments via PayPal. = MM_contentVersion;
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