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Home | Personalities | Exciting Facts Coins Coins have preserved the names and titles of kings who have left no other record; and by their aid it is sometimes possible to reconstruct the dynastic lists and to determine the chronology and the geographical extent of the ruling powers. But it is only when coin legends appear as the result of Greek-influence in the north-west India that this source of history becomes available. The earliest indigenous coinage was little more than a system of weights of silver or copper stamped with the weight of monetary authorities. The first Indian king whose name occurs on a coin is Saubhuti (Sophytes in Greek), a contemporary of Alexander the Great. The legend of his coins is in Greek. After his date no inscribed coins are found for more than a hundred years.

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