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Menander the Great GENUINE Tetradrachm Coin Bactrian Bactria Bactria XF - RARE
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| Quantity Available: |
Only one in stock, order soon |
| Condition: |
Ungraded |
| Composition: |
Silver |
| Denomination: |
Tetradrachm |
| Era: |
Ancient |
| Historical Period: |
Greek (450 BC-100 AD) |
| Year: |
165-130 BC |
| Country of Origin: |
Afghanistan |
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| Posted for sale: |
May 26 |
| Item number: |
1807399342 |
Item description
Guaranteed 100% authentic genuine ancient coin - excellent quality silver drachm coin with wonderful portrait of Menander the Great
DENOMINATION
Silver Tetradrachm - Diameter 26 mm ; Weight 9.1 grams
XF Extremely Fine quality, impressive historic drachm with great sharpness.
OBVERSE
Heroic bust of Menander wearing Macedonian helmet and royal diadem. Legend around ???????? ??????? ????????? ('of King Menander the Saviour')
REVERSE
Athena standing right, brandishing thunderbolt and holding aegis, Karosthi legend around, monogram in field to left.
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Ex Pars Coins
DESCRIPTION
Menander I Soter, sometimes called Menander the Great, was an Indo-Greek king (reigned c.?165/155 ?130 BC) who administered a large territory in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. Menander is noted for having become a patron of Greco-Buddhism and is regarded as the greatest and most well-known of the Indo-Greek kings.
Menander might have initially been a prince or king of Bactria. After conquering the Punjab, as far as Taxila and Sagala, he established an empire which stretched from the Kabul River in the west to the Ravi River in the east, and from the Swat River valley in the north to Arachosia (the Helmand Province). The Greek geographer Strabo wrote that he "conquered more tribes than Alexander the Great." Ancient Indian writers indicate that he possibly launched expeditions southward into Rajputana (Rajasthan, Gujarat and Sindh) and central India (Gujarat and Malwa) and as far east down the Ganges River Valley as Pataliputra (Patna).
Large numbers of Menander's coins have been unearthed, attesting to both the flourishing commerce and longevity of his realm. Menander was also a patron of Buddhism. His conversations with the Buddhist sage Nagasena are recorded in the influential Buddhist work, the Milinda Panha ("The Questions of King Milinda"; panha meaning "question" in Pali). After his death in 130 BC, he was succeeded by his wife Agathocleia (possibly daughter of Agathocles) who ruled as regent for his son Strato I. Buddhist tradition relates that he handed over his kingdom to his son and retired from the world, but Plutarch says that he died in camp while on a military campaign, and that his remains were divided equally between the cities to be enshrined in monuments, probably stupas, across his realm.
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