Les Grecs en Inde. Politiques et pratiques monétaires (IIIe s. a.C.-Ier s. p.C.)

Greeks’ presence in Central Asia and India is the direct result of Alexander the Great’s expeditions, which will give birth in 250 a.C. to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and in around 180 a.C to the Indo-Greek Kingdom, separated by the Hindu Kush. The study of the coins struck by the 45 kings of these two kingdoms is essential to understanding their economic and political evolution. From a mostly unpublished corpus based on coins from the art market, Olivier Bordeaux focuses on six rulers who present remarkable questions. The division of coinage of homonymous rulers Diodotus I and II, the typological evolution of Euthydemus I’s coins, the existing links between Eucratides I’s and Menander I’s coinage, Hippostratos’ place among Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian rulers. The chosen methodology, the study of dies, provides new and precious information regarding monetary mints and the meaning we can attribute to monograms.