Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c10.9

c10.9

¹ P. Gardner thought that there were a few such pieces of Alexander's Indian money: *BMC*. xviii. But realy the piece, now in the collection of the Berlin Museum, is unique. The shape which is the only reason for associating it with India might have been an accidental freak, ‘the result of awkward handling by some workman at a western mint’. Macdonald refers to a group of tetradrchms with Zeus' head on the obverse and the eagle on a thunderbolt accompanied by the legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ on the reverse, as having some connection with the east, if not actually with India : *CHI*. I 388–89. The presence of a satrapal tiara on the right field of the reverse sides of these coins proves that they were satrapal issues.