Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.19

c13.19

It is doubtful, except in a few instances, whether any coins of the Greek kings are dated. The three letters PMI on the exergue of the coin of Platon can only be explained as a date, although the usual order of IMP is reversed. As a date they represent 147, which can only be referred to the Seleukidan era, and would, therefore, be equivalent to B.C. 165-164. The letters ΟΓ, or 73, are found on a coin of Eukratides, and the letters ΠΓ, or 83, on several coins of Heliokles. That these are most probably dates has been proved by Mr. Thomas, by a reference to a coin of Heliokles in the British Museum, bearing the full date ΠΙΓ, or 183.* I have since acquired a tetradrachm of Eukratides with the detached letters NA, which may also be read as a date, or 51 = 151 of the Seleukidan era. According to these dates we have—