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Message:: [QUOTE="Nemo, post: 4341561, member: 58462"] LA has thousands of homeless and it's a terrible tragedy.  Similar or even worse than slums in India??    Oh my, I’m sorry that's just not true and it grossly misrepresents the suffering in the slums of India. As awful as it is, nothing shown in that YouTube video even scratches the surface of what the Indian people are enduring.  Google Dharavi, a slum of about a million people living in 2 square miles. You can't begin to comprehend the crowds, poverty and pollution. The filth is contrasted against people who are hospitable, intelligent and kind. For what it’s worth, I just returned from several weeks in India and I hope to go back when this health crisis is over. To keep it on the subject of coins, here is one that celebrates the conquest of India by Alexander the Great. [ATTACH=full]1099841[/ATTACH]Seleukos I Nikator, 312-281 BC. Tetradrachm The obverse portrait relates to Seleukos' eastern victory and ties his mythology to that of both Dionysos (the panther being the animal companion of the god Dionysos), the first conqueror of India, and Alexander, the second conqueror of India.[/QUOTE]