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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-03-05
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[01] Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India through their coins
[01] Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India through their coins
ANA-MPA - The Numismatic Museum and Alpha Bank are presenting "The
Greek Kingdoms of Bactria and India" through their coin collections
in an exhibition that opens on March 11 at the Ilion Melathron, the
Numismatic Museum's premises on Panepistimiou Street in downtown Athens.
The most important coin issues by leaders of the Kingdoms of Bactria and
India will be included in the exhibition. The kindoms flourished in the
Hellenistic period, approximately a century after the death of Alexander
the Great in 323 BC, covering parts of current-day India and Afghanistan.
Coins have preserved Greek writing, symbols and images that survived in
the depths of Asia along with elements from local communities.
Prior to the exhibition's inauguration there will be a lecture
by Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi, professor at Sorbonne and Berkeley, and
director of the Archaeology Department-Hellenism and Eastern Cultures,
at the French National Research Foundation (CNRS-ENS).
[File photo from an earlier collaboration of the National Archaeological
Museum, the Numismatic Museum and the Alpha Bank collection, at the
Numismatic Museum, 24.11.2011,ANA-MPA/Stringer]
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