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Drachm - Menander I
| Issuer | Indo-Greek Kingdom |
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| Year | 155 BC - 130 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (155 BC - 130 BC) |
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Menander I — known in Buddhist texts as Milinda — is the only Indo-Greek king whose reign is commemorated in a major Pali philosophical work, the Milindapañha, in which he engages the monk Nagasena in extended doctrinal debate. Whether he actually converted to Buddhism remains contested, but his coins are the first in the Indo-Greek series to bear the Dharmachakra, suggesting at minimum a calculated appeal to his predominantly Buddhist subjects in the Punjab and Gandhara.
Bopearachchi 16E belongs to a late series with a particularly wide geographic find-spread, turning up in hoards from Taxila to Begram.