The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.120

c10.s2.120

⁶ Whitehead loc. cit. makes the objection that before the war Indian rupees were accepted in parts of the Levant, but that did not mean that the Levant was an appanage of the Indian empire. I see no connection between the two things. The rupees (if not taken merely to melt down) were accepted because behind them was the credit of the Government of India. But Apollodotus’ kingdom was long extinct; the acceptance of his money was ‘use and wont’, and that could only have originated in his rule. I note as a curiosity that about 1841 H. H. Wilson found Kushan copper coins in circulation in various Indian cities (Ariana Antiqua p. 349); and the receipt among small change of a copper coin of Cleopatra VII has recently been recorded from the French Riviera.