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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 4586950, member: 26302&quot;]My guess would be Alexander. He started the coinage tradition in the area, and then being along the Silk Road southern branch into India, the idea of coinage naturally passed into the area.</p><p><br /></p><p>OP, thanks for a great thread. I recently got interested in the mint after finding out the Seleucid Antiochos coin was the prototype for Sogdian pieces. I do not have the reference you posted, (will go on my list to get), but reminded me of the CNG publications and I pulled down CNS 1, Seleucid Coins of Bactria. It looks like it will get me started.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Looking back Rob, of course Alexander was a dumb answer. I still think the Silk Road is involved. The Silk Road used to run more southerly through Bactria until the Scythian then Kushan invasions laid waste to Bactria. At that time, it moved northerly into Sogdiana. Both times, though, a Indian branch would have moved through Kabul into India.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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