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  L@@K GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC WITH A 100% SATISFACTION, 14 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE FREE SHIPPING ~ AND ~ SHIPPED NEXT DAY.PLEASE BE SURE TO VISIT MY NEW  STORE  ANDCheck out my other items!Be sure to add me to your favorites list!~   ~   ~   ~   ~ - ~  ~  ~  ~   ~ NUMISMATIC CERTIFIED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY INCLUDED ~NOTE: COA IN PICTURES IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOUR COA WILL LOOK LIKE. YOUR COA WILL MATCH YOUR COIN   COLLECTORS: VERY RARE MUCH OLDER MINTING STYLE.(NOTE THE REV. OF THIS COIN)  THE BUST OF APOLLODOTUS I  IS IDENTIFIED ON THIS COIN. APOLLODOTUS I :APOLLODOTUS WAS NOT THE FIRST TO STRIKE BILINGUAL COINS IN INDIA BUT THE FIRST OF ALEXANDERS KINGS WHO RULED IN INDIA ONLY, AND THEREFORE FOUNDER OF THE PROPER INDO-GREEK KINGDOM. A FAIR BUT FIRM KING, APOLLODOTUS IS KNOWN FOR HIS COMMITMENT TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE FORMATION AND CONTINUATION OF THE PROPER INDO-GREEK KINGDOM.REIGN: 180-160 B.C.E.                     BIRTHPLACE: BACTRIA IN CENTRAL ASIADIED: ca. 163-62 B.C.EPLACE OF DEATH: OHIND NEAR TAXILA, PAKISTAN.                  PREDECCESSOR: AGATHOCLES OF BACTRASUCCESSOR: DEMETRIUS OF INDIA.DYNASTY: GRECO-BACTRIAN OR INDO-GREEK KINGDOM - INDIA- RULED THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE INDO GREEK KINGDOM. IT EXTENDED FROM TAXILA IN PUNJAB TO THE AREAS OF SINDH AND POSSIBLY GUJRAT.FATHER: EUCRATIDES IMOTHER: THEOPHILA A BEAUTIFULL INDO-GREEK SILVER DRACHMA FROM THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.WEIGHT: 2.3 GRAMSDIAMETER: 20MM COMPOSITION: SILVERAGE: RULE-180-160 B.C.E.CONDITION: VERY FINE. RAISED BUST AND SCRIPT  WITH VERY CLEAR DETAILS. CLEAR READABLE SCRIPT. APOLLODOTUS CAN BE SEEN. UNIQUE: AN OFF CENTER MINTED COIN BUT CLEAR DETAIL AND SCRIPT. A UNIQUE OVAL SHAPE. TYPICAL OF OLDER MINTING STYLE. NOTE: ~THIS IS AN OLDER ISSUE OF THIS HISTORICAL COIN.~ *VERY FINE DETAILS.ALL A BONUS FOR COLLECTORS.   IDENTIFIED AS THE BUST OF APOLLODOTUS.~CAN BE READ IN SCRIPT.~ *EXTREMEY RARE INDO-GREEK SILVER COIN. - -THIS IS AN A++ INVESTMENT COIN!   OBV:  PICTURED ON THIS INDO-GREEK COIN  IS APOLLODOTUS THE GREEK KING, RULER  OF THE GREEK PROVENCES CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN INDIA. (I INCLUDED MAPS WITH THE PICTURES OF THE COIN TO HELP YOU IDENTIFY THE LOCATION OF THIS AREA AND MINT.)* *INFORMATION ABOUT APOLLODOTUS WITH ALEXANDER THE GREATAND MAP WILL BE INCLUDED WITH YOUR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AND COIN FOR YOUR REFERENCE AND ENJOYMENT. REV:  ATHENA WITH SHIELD AND BRANDISHING A THUNDERBOT IN A BATTLE STANCE. MINTED AT THE THE TAXILA MINT  WITH BILINGUAL LEGEND   ( SEE HISTORY BELOW.)   BEAUTIFUL, VERY RARE AND IN  EX  FINE CONDITION.   ANCIENT  SILVER  INDO-GREEK OR GRAECO-INDIAN KINGDOM COIN   BACKGROUND: PRELIMINARY GREEK PRESENCE IN SOUTH ASIA:   1N 328 B.C. E. , ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONTINUED HIS CAMPAIGN EASTWARD AND CONQUERED THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AS FAR AS THE HYPASIS RIVER, AND ESTABLISHED SATRAPIES AND FOUNDED SEVERAL SETTLEMENTS, INCLUDING BUCEPHALA; HE TURNED SOUTH WHEN HIS TROOPS REFUSED TO GO FURTHER EAST. THE INDIAN SATRAPIES OF THE PUNJAB WERE LEFT TO THE RULE OF PORUS AND TAXILES, WHO WERE CONFIRMED AGAIN AT THE TREATY OF TRIPARADISUS IN 321 BC, AND THE REMAINING GREEK TROOPS IN THE SATRAPIES WERE LEFT UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL  EUDEMUS. AFTER 321 EUDEMUS TOPPLED TAXILES, UNTILL HE LEFT INDIA IN 316 BC ANOTHER GENERAL ALSO RULED OVER THE GREEK COLONIES OF THE INDUS: PEITHON, SON OF AGENOR, UNTILL HIS DEPARTURE FOR BABYLON ALSO LATER IN 316 BC.   THE INDO-GREEK KINGDOM WAS A HELLENISTIC KINGDOM COVERING VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST REGIONS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT DURING THE LAST TWO CENTURIES BC, AND WAS RULED BY MORE THAN 30 KINGS, OFTEN IN CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER.   DURING THE TWO CENTURIES OF THEIR RULE, THE INDO-GREEK KINGS COMBINED THE GREEK AND INDIAN LANGUAGES AND SYMBOLS, AS SEEN ON THEIR COINS, (THIS IS AN EXAMPLE)  AND BLENDED ANCIENT GREEK, HINDU AND BUDDHIST RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, AS SEEN IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF THEIR CITIES AND IN THE INDICATIONS OF THIEIR SUPPORT OF BUDDHISM. THIS COIN IF FROM THIS ERA, DETAILED ABOVE.  A HISTORICAL TREASURE. BE SURE TO Check out my NEW STORE  AND other items!    MANY BEAUTIFUL ANCIENT COINS! SEE PICTURES! Check out my other items! Be sure to add me to your favorites list!   ~ ~ ~ THIS EXTREMELY RARE ANCIENT 2.3 GRAM 20MM SILVER DRACHMA COIN IS GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC WITH A 100%  SATISFACTION, 14 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE.   ~ ~ ~SOME REFERENCES BELOW~ ~ ~ Check out my other items! Be sure to add me to your favorites list! DON'T LET THIS ONE GET AWAY ! !  ~FREE EBAY SHIPPING WITH TRACKING NUMBER~ SHIPPED 'NEXT DAY'    > REFERENCES FOR THIS COIN:   (1)ANCIENT COIN COLLECTING, (3RD. EDITION) BY WAYNE G. SAYLES. EASTERN EUROPEAN AND EARLY ASIAN COINS. INDO-GREEK  INDIA   (2) OFFICIAL WHITMAN GUIDEBOOK OF ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN COINS BY ZANDER H. KLAWANS. PG. 190-195   (3) COLLECTING GREEK COINS BY JOHN ANTHONY PG. 50 AND 88 COINS OF ANCIENT INDIA. CONQUESTS OF 'ALEXANDER THE GREAT'   please click on 'sellers other items' many      more hard to find rare coins! SOON TO BE LISTED.     Check out my  other itemsAND MY STORE! ^  ^  ^  ^  ^ ^  ^  ^  ^   DETAILS

A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR COLECTION !!!! THIS IS A VERY RARE COIN FROM THE CONQUESTS OF 'ALEXANDER THE GREAT' OF THE INDO-GREEK ERA IN INDIA. 2,180+ YEARS OLD! THIS COIN IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. SEE PICTURES AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. THIS IS A WONDERFUL BONUS AND ADDS TO THIS COINS COLLECTABILITY AND VALUE. COIN PICTURED IS THE ACTUAL COIN YOU WILL RECEIVE. 

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