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The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c35.s7.t1.2

The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c35.s7.t1.2

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For the most comprehensive discussion of the whole subject see B. V. Head, Num. Chron., 1906, pp. 1 ff., and Historia Numorum, 2nd edn., pp. 832 ff. For Sophytes see A. Cunningham, J.A.S.B., 1865, pp. 46 f., and Num. Chron., 1866, pp. 220 ff., as well as other references given by Rapson (Indian Coins, p. 4), to which add Num. Chron., 1904, pp. 323 ff. and Z.f.N. XXIV, pp. 89 f. The 'square' bronze coin of Alexander (p. 388) was first published by A. von Sallet, Z.f.N. VI, p. 285, the attribution to Bactria having been proposed by Dannenberg. On the decadrachm (p. 389; Pl. I, 16) see P. Gardner, Num. Chron., 1887, pp. 177 ff., and on the double darics (p. 390; Pl. I, 6) see E. Babelon, *Les Perses Achéménides*, p. xx; Head, Hist. Num. pp. 828 ff.; and F. Imhoof-Blumer, Num. Zeit., 1895, pp. 1 ff. On the Oxus find see Cunningham, J.A.S.B., 1881, pp. 151 ff., and 1883, p. 258; cf. also O. M. Dalton, The Treasure of the Oxus (1905), Introduction.