[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c28.58 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.58 The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.58 - **Language:** English ### [c28.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.58) It also might be asked, if the Sacas were independent enough \*c.\* 155 to institute an Era like the Arsacids (Parni), why did they not also coin, as the Arsacids apparently did from an early period? There was a good reason for this. Neither Parni nor Sacas could at first coin for themselves; they depended on getting control of a Greek mint, or anyhow of a Greek city. The Parthians early secured Hekatompylos, which would explain the coins of the kings before Mithridates I (if the ‘beardless’ coins really belong to them). But in Sacastene the Sacas, as Isidore shows, did not control any Greek city; indeed there is no trace that there ever was a Greek mint at all in Seistan, which had continued to be served by Euthydemus’ money (pp. 95, 164 n. 1). The Sacas did their best; they produced some barbarous imitations of Euthydemus’ coins.¹ But they probably had no chance of instituting a proper coinage till Maues got control of the mint at Taxila; their first kingdom on the Indus, comprising Patalene and Abiria, seems to have left no numismatic record (pp. 321 \*sq.\*). - [Previous: c28.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.57) - [Next: c28.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.59) - [Up: c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.58) · Pramāṇa