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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2897858, member: 82322&quot;]This drachm has a very low weight suggesting that it is &quot;crystalized&quot; internally.&nbsp; The surfaces are good, though black.&nbsp; I purchased it at the ANA show in NYC, the last time the ANA was in NYC, in 2002.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]697419[/ATTACH]</p><p>Indo-Greek, Menander I (165-135 BC), 1.5g drachm</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia has a page on a famous debate that has come down to us between Menander and Buddhist sage Nāgasena.&nbsp; Has anyone read it?&nbsp; (I have not).&nbsp; Somehow Menander was able to bring together the ideas and ethics of Europe with the ideas of India and Pakistan.&nbsp; He ended up a Buddhist!</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a pity that today the US/European coalition cannot find a way to verbally engage and instead dispatches drones to the same region.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milinda_Panha" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milinda_Panha" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milinda_Panha</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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