The Greeks in Bactria and India c13.31

c13.31

The same monogram ☧ in India on twenty-two coins of the Bajaur hoard,⁵ composed of coins of Apollodotus, Menander, and Antimachus II (p. 229), must be another man, whose monogram also appears on coins of Menander's son Strato I; and a third man, possibly a grandson of the first, signs coins of two later members of the house of Eucratides, Antialcidas and Archebius, with the same monogram. What little is known of Greek names in India apart from the kings points to certain favourite names being often repeated (p. 392). This seems to be the story of one common monogram, and it has nothing whatever to do with mint-cities. But it is to be hoped that it may one day be possible for numismatists to work out the Bactrian and Indian mints as the Seleucid and Parthian mints are being worked out.