The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.139

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² This is the coin referred to *ante*, p. 289 n. Drouin (*Rev. Num.*, 1898, p. 140) points out that the form of the altar is that found on the coins of Ardashīr, the first Sassanian king (225 or 226–41), as well as on those of some of his successors. See V. A. Smith, *Catal. of Coins in I. M.*, vol. i (1906), pp. 88, 89; and Banerji's corrections in ‘Notes on Indo-Scythian Coinage’ (*J. & Proc. A. S. B.*, 1908, p. 90).