Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c13.33
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c13.33
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c13.33
Besides the Kushāns, the Śaka, Indo-Parthian and the Kshaharāta princes issued coins which are more or less a compromise between Greco-Roman and Oriental ideas. Those of Nahapāna are a clever imitation of the Greek style applied to realistic portraiture². Before Alexander, punch-marked coins were alone issued in India, though Persian and Athenian coins were in circulation in the satrapy of the Panjāb³.