[Buddha-l] Re: PRABHU'S WEB PAGE ON INDIAN COINAGE

[Andrew Skilton]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 "jkirk" wrote:

>http://prabhu.50g.com/index.html Fascinating website on ancient coins of 
>Indo-Greeks, Sakas and Parthians, etc on to the Guptas and beyond..

Also for Kushan materials try http://www.kushan.org/coins/intro.htm and links.

>Some folks on the list might enjoy poring over these fragments of ancient
history.
>I did....only experts can vouch for the accuracy of some of the descriptive 
>information on this site, unfortunately I cannot.

I enjoy it too.  (And also cannot vouch for the accuracy of the site I mention
above.) I was looking at the famous Menander 'boddo' coin in the BM only last
week.  But looking at all this history makes me feel so bad about not
prioritizing truth.

Andrew



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