 | Horace Hayman Wilson, Charles Masson - Afghanistan - 1841 - 558 pages
...given in their law-books, of the several values of gold and silver refer to weight, not to number,1 it is likely that the currency of the country consisted...neighbours, and from their foreign commerce, especially with Rome. At the same time it seems likely that they had a sort of stamped coin even before the Greek invasion.... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 554 pages
...sixteen mashas. If the masha was, as now, about 17.4 grains only, this would certainly make the Suvarna4 small enough to admit of a doubt whether it and silver...neighbours, and from their foreign commerce, especially with Rome. At the same time it seems likely that they had a sort of stamped coin even before the Greek invasion.... | |
 | W. S. W. VAUX, M..A., F.R.S., JOHN EVANS, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., AND BARCLAY V. HEAD - 1873 - 490 pages
...were in actual possession of a real coinage at the time of Alexander's expedition. Wilson thought it " likely that the currency of the country consisted...money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially with Rome."18 He then adds, " at the same time it seems likely that they had a... | |
 | W. S. W. VAUX, M..A., F.R.S., JOHN EVANS, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., AND BARCLAY V. HEAD - 1873 - 490 pages
...were in actual possession of a real coinage at the time of Alexander's expedition. Wilson thought it " likely that the currency of the country consisted...money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially with Rome." 18 He then adds, " at the same time it seems likely that they had... | |
 | Numismatic chronicle - 1873 - 488 pages
...were in actual possession of a real coinage at the time of Alexander's expedition. Wilson thought it " likely that the currency of the country consisted...money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially with Rome."18 He then adds, " at the same time it seems likely that they had a... | |
 | Numismatic chronicle - 1873 - 474 pages
...were in actual possession of a real coinage at the time of Alexander's expedition. Wilson thought it " likely that the currency of the country consisted...money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially with Rome."18 He then adds, " at the same time it seems likely that they had a... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke - Numismatics - 1873 - 542 pages
...were in actual possession of a real coinage at the time of Alexander's expedition. Wilson thought it " likely that the currency of the country consisted...impression, until the Hindus had learned the usefulness jof money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially with Rome." 18 He then... | |
 | Numismatics - 1873 - 906 pages
...were in actual possession of a real coinage at the time of Alexander's expedition. Wilson thought it " likely that the currency of the country consisted...usefulness of money from their Bactrian neighbours, aud from their commerce, especially with Rome."18 He then adds, " at the same time it seems likely... | |
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likely that the currency of the country consisted chiefly, if not exclusively, of lumps of gold and silver, not bearing any impression, until the Hindus had learned the usefulness |of money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially... 