Source: – @caitlinrgreen & @Subhashkak1
Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian & other early Indian coins in Britain — post with a revised map by me 🙂 https://t.co/bElbr2BhYZ pic.twitter.com/lBdrzzZm4Q
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
A 2nd-century BC Indo-Greek coin of Menander from Tenby, Wales; it was found two feet down in 1881 during the digging of foundations. pic.twitter.com/CjR3JGdkNc
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
The British Museum "insist that it cannot possibly have been found in Britain; but for all that it was": https://t.co/yfLslPJHPF pic.twitter.com/93PApbl8lB
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
Another Indo-Greek coin of Menander from c. 150 BC was found at Towcester, Northamptonshire, in 1882, and again seems to have been turned up during the digging of foundations; Northants N&Q 1, 1886, p.99. pic.twitter.com/0Emx3uAms4
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
Yet another 2nd-century BC Indo-Greek coin of Menander was found near Stonehenge before 1880, and is recorded in the VCH Wiltshire: https://t.co/mSfHINU2Ur pic.twitter.com/VpnbSnyWcY
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
One more coin of Menander was found at Buriton, Hampshire, in the 1920s, and was the subject of an article for the BBC History Magazine in 2006 by @llewelyn_morgan (text via https://t.co/xa6WzgwQvF). pic.twitter.com/ZPVlWEwM7E
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
The most recent find is of a silver Indo-Greek drachm of Menander, c. 160–145 BC, which was made in Denbighshire, Wales, in 2018! https://t.co/M2TrujLpCc pic.twitter.com/PnO5MZhqU7
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
A coin of Demetrios I of Bactria, c. 200–185 BC, found at Fenham nr Newcastle: https://t.co/NiCvBQ51EM pic.twitter.com/2ZAYgmbO5v
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
A coin of Nahapana who ruled NW India; the coin is believed to have been minted c. AD 119–24 and was found in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire: https://t.co/GO177TtGGZ pic.twitter.com/9ZRDypw7S0
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
A posthumous coin of the Indo-Greek king Hermaios, early 1stC BC; minted in the Kabul/Gandhara region & found in Hampshire: https://t.co/D7F2y5KOps pic.twitter.com/0ZVgxWlJaX
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 9, 2019
Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I (c. AD 127-50) made at Begram, Afghanistan, and found at Lydiate, Merseyside: https://t.co/ukANIs6jIC pic.twitter.com/1rO3aRQmK0
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 10, 2019
A late first-century BC coin of the Indo-Scythian king Azes II, found at Nailstone, Leicestershire: https://t.co/IvqFrgszZe pic.twitter.com/dbtn1xwWcZ
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 10, 2019
Another Indo-Greek coin from Britain, probably Apollodotus I, c.180–160 BC, found London: https://t.co/f6mF5ncLe7 pic.twitter.com/d2M6m3vDHK
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 11, 2019
A copper-alloy Kushan coin from Bactria, AD 100-60, found London & recorded Dec 2015: https://t.co/v4J8v1Rh1b pic.twitter.com/QWRwZtYH0t
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 11, 2019
Coin of the Kushan emperor Vasudeva I (c. AD 190-230), found Newquay, Cornwall: https://t.co/BI4bN6bezQ pic.twitter.com/oOVo9fMDV8
— Dr Caitlin Green (@caitlinrgreen) May 12, 2019
Kanishka coin found in UK.
The obverse shows the king standing sacrificing at an altar, the reverse shows the Shiva (Wesho) with four arms, holding his divine attributes (thunderbolt, water-pot, trident). https://t.co/b0VdXtrGWi
— Subhash Kak (@subhashkak1) May 17, 2019
