PAKISTAN NORTHWEST FRONTIER GREEK-SCYTHIAN weight circa 300-100 BC
$35.00
PAKISTAN, unknown location in NORTHWEST FRONTIER, GREEK-SCYTHIAN, weight, circa 300-100 BC, incuse X on one side, cross on the other, square, bronze, 17mm, 8.1g, hard lumps of patina, F
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Description
Same size and weight as a bronze half unit (Senior) or dichalkon (Mitchiner),
When Alexander arrived in Pakistan with his Greco-Macedonian army he found a working civilized culture with cities, bureaucracies, and so forth. The Macedonians and Greeks settled down to rule and started intermarrying with the locals. About 100 years in nomadic Scythians began to migrate into the region, eventually taking over, intermarrying, etc. Wave after wave of outsiders came and stayed over many centuries.
Northwest Frontier Province was renamed Khyber Pakhtunwa in 2010.
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
