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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 498337, member: 4381&quot;]<img src="http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/coins/nycoinshow/western_satraps_drachm_obv_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b><span style="color: DimGray">Western Satraps Obverse Drachm</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/coins/nycoinshow/western_satraps_drachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b><span style="color: DimGray">Western Satraps Reverse Drachm</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Western Satraps Dynasties rules the north western providences of India from 35 to 405 AD strateling a key historical moment of cultural development of the region and know to Western societies of the time as Indo-Scythians related to the Kushans, further north, whom they are likely related.&nbsp; Sartaps linguistically related to the Persian word Ksatrapavan meaning Governor.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They were responsible for fixing the yearly date for the Indian calender.&nbsp; The court language was&nbsp; Sanskrit and Greeks were employed to transcribe Greek works into Sanskrit.&nbsp; The exact dynasty which created this coin is a bit of a puzzle to me but it might be similar to this coin from Rudradaman I dated about 130 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Rudradaman.jpg/800px-Rudradaman.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is not,however, this one with different script and design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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