The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.250

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⁷ *BMC* p. 50 no. 73, Pl. XII, 7; another type of this coin, *ASI* 1929–30 p. 65 no. 4. Grousset p. 58 goes further and would see in the elephant-head on one of Menander’s coins the elephant of the Conception of Sakyamuni; but Demetrius had used the elephant-head before him (*BMC* p. 7 no. 16) and it was a common Seleucid type. For a possible explanation of these elephant-heads with a bell see p. 164.