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MENANDER I SORTER SILVER DRACHMA.

155-130 B.C. A REVERED BUDDHIST KING.

GREEK SCRIPT AROUND PORTRAIT AND KHAROSHTI ON THE REVERSE, AROUND A STANDING ATHENA WITH SHIELD BRANDSHING A THUNDERBOLT. OFF CENTER MINTED BUT WITH A RAISED BUST AND FEATURES. VERY CLEAR SCRIPT. VF

                  HISTORY:

"MENANDER I THE SAVIOUR", KNOWN IN INDIAN PALI SOURCES AS MILINDIA WAS A GREEK OF THE  INDO-GREEK KINGDOM WHO ESTABLISHED A LARGE EMPIRE IN SOUTH ASIA AND BECAME A PATRON OF BUDDHISM.

MENANDER WAS BORN IN THE CAUCASUS, AND INITIALLY WAS A KING OF BACTRA. HE EVENTUALLY ESTABLISHED AN EMPIRE IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT STREACHING FROM THE KABUL RIVER VALLEY IN THE WEST TO THE RAVI RIVER IN THE EAST, AND FROMTHE SWAT RIVER VALLEY IN THE NORTH TO THE ARACHOSIA (THE HELMAND PROVENCE)

MENANDER WAS ALSO A PATRON OF BUDDHISM, AND HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SAGE NAGASENA ARE RECORDED IN THE IMPORTANT BUDDHIST WORK, THE MILANDA PANHA (THE QUESTIONS OF MILANDA) THE TEXT HONORS HIM AND PORTRAYS HIM AS A GREAT WARRIOR. PHILOSOPHER-KING AND SAINT, WHOSE ASHES WERE DEVIDED BETWEEN SEVERAL CITYS THAT COMPETED FOR THE HONOR OF PRESERVING HIM.

REIGN: 165/155-130 B.C.E.

PREDECESSOR: ANIMACHUS III

CONSORT: AGATHOKLEIA

ISSUE: STALO I

HOUSE: HOUSE OF EUTHAYDEMUS

BORN: CAUCASUS

DIED: 130 B.C.E.

BURIAL: STUPAS ACCROSS THE INDO-GREEK KINGDOM.

RELIGION: BUDDHISM.

         REFERENCE:

                COLLECTING GREEK COINS BY: 

                             JOHN ANTHONY, 

               MENANDER, INDO-GREEK KING. PG 231

                PICTURE OF THIS COIN, PG. 234 #403

 

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