The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.201

c10.s2.201

There is indeed a difficulty about invoking the aid of the elephant, for any particular elephant might merely be the well-known elephant of the Seleucid coinage, as is certainly the case with the elephant on the unique copper coin of Antimachus (p. 90), and Apollodotus did use the Seleucid type of ‘Apollo and tripod’ on his bronze money; but the fact that Apollodotus’ humped bull and elephant type became a regular type of the Saca kings may show that it had a local significance.¹