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The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.251

The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.251

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c10.s4.251

⁸ Silver issue (four coins known): Whitehead, *Lahore Cat.* p. 59 n. 1. Bronze issue, *BMC* p. 50 no. 74; said to be very rare, Cunningham *NC* 1870 p. 236. The late date is borne out by the monogram on the bronze coin in *BMC*, which is not otherwise known on Menander’s coinage, but occurs on coins of his son Strato (*BMC* p. 40 nos. 1, 2) and on an Indian coin of Heliocles (*ib.* p. 23 no. 25). That Menander at the end of his life should have adopted a new title on a few pieces is so strange that one is tempted to suppose that the δίκαιος coins belong to another