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It is not imitative; this is a normal, albeit heavily worn, crystalized and chipped, drachm of Menander. Mints are not known for Indo-Greek drachms.

Hey, I've seen you on Cointalk but I've never had an account there to comment. Do you collect any of the Indo-Sasanian Hunnic Sindh gold issues, like the "Rana Datasatya" type?

Whoa, very nice Yaudheya Tet! It's a shame that Kartikeya coins are so hard to find, but the ones that exist are very attractive; the Kushan dinars are quite nice, and the rare 6-headed silver drachm is stunning.

Not Samanid, but from their neighbors, the Tahirids. Album H1395, an issue of Abdallah b. Tahir; from the mint in Khwarizm in AH224.

Uniface silver horse unit from Samarqand; this one's 1.12g. Hilariously, this is in origin an imitation of Antiochos I's famous horse drachms; they were issued for such a long period of time that the obverse got totally obliterated and all that was left was some abstract horse shape.

Menander drachms, arranged chronologically. There are a small number of intermediate types I don't have here.

Eukratides II, quite an ephemeral king without the fame of his predecessor.

I suppose I can justify joining here, now that the odds are good I won't be arbitrarily banned by some absurd power-tripping moderator. My coins, by and large, have no history to them; all you have is what's on the coin. Here we have Lysias, sporting a nice elephant pelt as a hat on the obverse, and Herakles crowning himself in the reverse. Theories abound using motifs from one coin or another to justify dynastic connections between the Indo-Greek kings; I will ignore all that, and state merely that he seems to have a connection to Antialkidas given the similarity of their coinage and a very rare supposed joint bronze issue citing both kings.