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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 3128847, member: 57364&quot;]My two cents for the Indian region:</p><p><br /></p><p>1:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]797832[/ATTACH]</p><p>A coin of Indo-Greek king Agathokles.</p><p>Why:</p><p>- Many people are not aware that the successors of Alexander the Great established themselves as far as Northern India for several centuries.</p><p>- The coin itself is a hybrid between different cultures. The name of the king still is in Greek. The legend on the deity side is in Ashoka Brahmi script. The square bronze shape and the pictorial design is based on local tradition.</p><p><br /></p><p>2:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]797835[/ATTACH]</p><p>A coin of Gupta ruler Chandragupta.</p><p>Why:</p><p>- The Gupta period is often seen as the Golden age of ancient Indian coinage.</p><p>- The coin is unmistakenly Indian in design in the elegant posture of the figures and the deity sitting on the lotus flower.</p><p>- The Standing king/Sitting deity design has probably the longest uninterupted use in numismatic history. Earliest versions were minted in the second century AD by the Kushan. The design re-occurs continuously over the centuries until 900 years later in the coinage of the Kashmir kings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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