Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c20.8
Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c20.8
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c20.8
**§ 28.** Śaka imitations of older coins. — To the period of Śaka rule in Bactria belong the barbarous imitations of Macedonian, Seleucid, Bactrian, and Parthian coins. These coins are, in general, mere imitations, and their inscriptions are debased copies of the Greek inscriptions; but on a few specimens there are legends which have been recognised as the most ancient examples of the Aramaean writing of Turkestan (**Plate I, 18. 19**, *Euthydemus*: a Bactrian original, and a Śaka copy).