Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c24.s2.1

c24.s2.1

— The silver coins both of Nahapāna and of Caṣṭana and his successors are copied from the hemidrachms of the Greek princes of the Panjāb — more particularly, perhaps, from those of Apollodotus Philopator (C.CMI. p. 3) and seem to follow the same weight-standard (the Persian, v. sup. § 8: hemi-drachm 43.2 grains or 2,8 grms.). Traces of this origin are to be seen in the fragmentary inscr. in Greek characters, which still continued to be repeated as a sort of ornament on the *obv.* of the satrap coins after its significance was lost.