Posted 04/28/2014 7:02 pm
The first one is an ancient Bactrian silver drachm, or a copy of one at least; something not too dissimilar to this example from king Hermaios. It's looking a bit too fuzzy for me to be comfortable; fakes of Indo-Greek coinages have become much more commonplace since Western soldiers started bringing them back from Afghanistan by the bucketful.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
