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Ancient India, Indo-Greek silver coin of Apollodotus II (80-65 BCE).

Weight : 2.09 g.

Obverse :

Diademed bust of the king facing right with Greek legend around beginning from 7, ending at 4 with name of the king going anticlockwise below the bust.

'BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ KAI ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ / AΠOΛΛOΔOTOY'

(King Saviour and father-loving/ Apollodotus)

Reverse :

Goddess Athena Alkidemos advancing left, holding shield in one hand and thunderbolt in the other.

Kharosthi legend around beginning from 4, going anticlockwise with name of the king going clockwise below the Goddess.

'Maharajasa Tratarasa / Apaladatasa'.

Indo-Greeks were the rulers that were ruling the parts of present day Pakistan after the return of Alexander. Some even adopted the Indian culture and traditions.

Ancient India, Indo-Greek silver coin of Apollodotus II (80-65 BCE).

Weight : 2.09 g.

Obverse :

Diademed bust of the king facing right with Greek legend around beginning from 7, ending at 4 with name of the king going anticlockwise below the bust.

'BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ KAI ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ / AΠOΛΛOΔOTOY'

(King Saviour and father-loving/ Apollodotus)

Reverse :

Goddess Athena Alkidemos advancing left, holding shield in one hand and thunderbolt in the other.

Kharosthi legend around beginning from 4, going anticlockwise with name of the king going clockwise below the Goddess.

'Maharajasa Tratarasa / Apaladatasa'.

Indo-Greeks were the rulers that were ruling the parts of present day Pakistan after the return of Alexander. Some even adopted the Indian culture and traditions.

Ancient India, Indo-Greek silver coin of Apollodotus II (80-65 BCE).

Weight : 2.09 g.

Obverse :

Diademed bust of the king facing right with Greek legend around beginning from 7, ending at 4 with name of the king going anticlockwise below the bust.

'BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ KAI ΦIΛOΠATOPOΣ / AΠOΛΛOΔOTOY'

(King Saviour and father-loving/ Apollodotus)

Reverse :

Goddess Athena Alkidemos advancing left, holding shield in one hand and thunderbolt in the other.

Kharosthi legend around beginning from 4, going anticlockwise with name of the king going clockwise below the Goddess.

'Maharajasa Tratarasa / Apaladatasa'.

The māṣakas are small uniface coins of 0.1-0.18g, stamped with one single device which were the smallest currency of the Mauryan and post-Mauryan era (300-100 BCE). Different varieties have been found mostly by gold washers along the courses and tributaries of the great rivers of northern and central India.

Hardaker's (1999: 6) analysis of the symbols and hoard evidence suggests that the māṣakas were an official subsidiary Mauryan silver currency. Especially the early issues are of good silver but debased specimens as well as specimens with silver coating around a copper core appear soon. The wide distribution of the māṣakas from northern to central India supports the view that they had been the small money of the Mauryan and Śuṅga Empire just like the Chawanni's and Atthanni's which were used in the 20th century.

Here is a Māsaka which has 'Two crescents and two taurines around a dot'.