Ptolemaic and Seleucid coins found in Britain — an old post w/ updated map etc :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/02/ptolemaic-coins-britain.html …pic.twitter.com/hyNXmphfTq
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A coin of King Nahapana who ruled NW India; the coin was minted c.AD 119–24 and found in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/203365 …pic.twitter.com/nVxdTAPkMR
A posthumous coin of the Indo-Greek king Hermaios, early 1stC BC; minted in Kabul/Gandhara region+found in Hampshire https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/634213 …pic.twitter.com/3BmJ3QUr9K
Another posthumous issue of the Indo-Greek king Hermaios, found near Dover: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/885871 …pic.twitter.com/FOnhnKXms0
Another Indo-Greek coin from Britain, prob Apollodotus I, c.180–160 BC: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/573374 …pic.twitter.com/CxPpgm9Qpq
A coin of Demetrios I of Bactria, c. 200–185 BC, found at Fenham nr Newcastle: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/01/indo-greek-indo-scythian-other-early.html …pic.twitter.com/35uLbOJDQX
Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I (c.AD 127-50) made at Begram, Afghanistan, and found at Lydiate, Merseyside: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/526273 …pic.twitter.com/K2QZHrajzt
A coin of the Indo-Greek king Menander, c. 150 BC, found two feet below the ground when the foundations of a house were dug in 1881 at Tenby, Wales: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/01/indo-greek-indo-scythian-other-early.html …pic.twitter.com/xCnX0lvH1B
Still gobsmacked by the discovery of Roman coins in A Medieval Japanese castle. Suspect ideas travelled as well as currency.
It's an interesting thought - they were def copying Sasanian textiles...
MERCI !
king Arthur Samarian horseman theory.
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