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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 6264934, member: 111037"]Sir, I applaud you for such an interesting write-up. If you choose to log in more regularly to Coin-Talk in the future, it will be to the benefit of all of us <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Very nice coin, and a nice Menander drachma has been in my wishlist for a while. And they are affordable too, which is a bonus. Everybody has heard of Alexander the Great, but not many people know the extend of the Greek presence and influence on the region that is modern-day India. There are actually still to this day some tribes in Pakistan that look Caucasian and have a culture and language with many Greek traces. Some say that they are descendants of Alexander's army, and even though we don't know to what extend this may be true, we can confidently say that they have strong connections to the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the past.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_people" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_people" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_people</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 6264934, member: 111037"]Sir, I applaud you for such an interesting write-up. If you choose to log in more regularly to Coin-Talk in the future, it will be to the benefit of all of us :happy: Very nice coin, and a nice Menander drachma has been in my wishlist for a while. And they are affordable too, which is a bonus. Everybody has heard of Alexander the Great, but not many people know the extend of the Greek presence and influence on the region that is modern-day India. There are actually still to this day some tribes in Pakistan that look Caucasian and have a culture and language with many Greek traces. Some say that they are descendants of Alexander's army, and even though we don't know to what extend this may be true, we can confidently say that they have strong connections to the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the past. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_people[/URL][/QUOTE]
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