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Taxila in Baktria,   95-60 BC., Indo-Scythians, Maues, Æ Hemiobol, Senior 8.1.
Baktria, Indo-Scythians, Maues, Taxila mint, ca. 95-60 BC., 
square Æ Hemiobol (22x22 mm / 10,01 g), 
Obv.:  BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣI - ΛEΩN MEAEOY MAYOY , Apollo standing facing, holding arrow in right hand and resting on bow in left. 
Rev.: tripod on stand, monogram {NI..} left, all within square beaded frame, Kharosthi script.
cf. Mitchiner 732 ; Senior 8.1 . 

from wikipedia:
Taxila (Pali:Takkasilā) is an important archaeological site of Ancient India, now within Pakistan. It contains the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) an important Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist centre of learning from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD.
Taxila is situated 35 km to the west of Islamabad Capital Territory—and to the northwest of Rawalpindi in Punjab—just off the Grand Trunk Road.
Historically, Taxila lay at the crossroads of three major trade routes: the royal highway from Pāṭaliputra; the north-western route through Bactria, Kāpiśa, and Puṣkalāvatī (Peshawar); and the route from Kashmir and Central Asia, via Śrinigar, Mansehra, and the Haripur valley across the Khunjerab pass to the Silk Road.
    * c. 518 BC – Darius the Great annexes modern day Pakistan, including Taxila, to the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
    * 326 BC – Alexander the Great receives submission of Āmbhi, king of Taxila, and afterwards surrender to Porus at the Jhelum River.
    * c. 317 BCE – In quick succession, Alexander's general Eudemus and then the satrap Peithon withdraw from the Indus.
    * 321 BCE-317 BCE Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire in eastern India, makes himself master of the northern and northwestern India, including Punjab. Chandragupta Maurya's advisor Kautilya (also known as Chanakya) was a teacher at Taxila.
    * During the reign of Chandragupta's grandson Aśoka, Taxila became a great Buddhist centre of learning. Nonetheless, Taxila was briefly the center of a minor local rebellion, subdued only a few years after its onset.
    * 185 BC – The last Maurya emperor, Bṛhadratha, is assassinated by his general, Puṣyamitra Śunga, during a parade of his troops.
    * 183 BC – Demetrios conquers Gandhāra, the Punjab and the Indus valley. He builds his new capital, Sirkap, on the opposite bank of the river from Taxila. During this new period of Bactrian Greek rule, several dynasties (like Antialcidas) likely ruled from the city as their capital. During lulls in Greek rule, the city managed profitably on its own, managed independently and controlled by several local trade guilds, who also minted most of the city's autonomous coinage.
    * c. 90 BC – The Indo-Scythian chief Maues overthrows the last Greek king of Taxila.
    * c. 25 AD – Gondophares, founder of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, conquers Taxila and makes it his capital.
    * 76– The date of and inscription found at Taxila of 'Great King, King of Kings, Son of God, the Kushana' (maharaja rajatiraja devaputra Kushana).
    * c. 460–470 – The Ephthalites sweep over Gandhāra and the Punjab; wholesale destruction of Buddhist monasteries and stupas at Taxila, which never again recovers.

Before the fall of these invader-kings, Taxila had been variously a capital for many dynasties, and a centre of Vedic and Buddhist learning, with a population of Buddhists, Classical Hindus, and possibly Greeks that may have endured for centuries.
Schlüsselwörter: Taxila Baktria Indo-Scythians Maues Hemiobol Apollo Arrow Bow Tripod Monogram Kharoshti

Taxila in Baktria, 95-60 BC., Indo-Scythians, Maues, Æ Hemiobol, Senior 8.1.

Baktria, Indo-Scythians, Maues, Taxila mint, ca. 95-60 BC.,
square Æ Hemiobol (22x22 mm / 10,01 g),
Obv.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣI - ΛEΩN MEAEOY MAYOY , Apollo standing facing, holding arrow in right hand and resting on bow in left.
Rev.: tripod on stand, monogram {NI..} left, all within square beaded frame, Kharosthi script.
cf. Mitchiner 732 ; Senior 8.1 .

from wikipedia:
Taxila (Pali:Takkasilā) is an important archaeological site of Ancient India, now within Pakistan. It contains the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) an important Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist centre of learning from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD.
Taxila is situated 35 km to the west of Islamabad Capital Territory—and to the northwest of Rawalpindi in Punjab—just off the Grand Trunk Road.
Historically, Taxila lay at the crossroads of three major trade routes: the royal highway from Pāṭaliputra; the north-western route through Bactria, Kāpiśa, and Puṣkalāvatī (Peshawar); and the route from Kashmir and Central Asia, via Śrinigar, Mansehra, and the Haripur valley across the Khunjerab pass to the Silk Road.
* c. 518 BC – Darius the Great annexes modern day Pakistan, including Taxila, to the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
* 326 BC – Alexander the Great receives submission of Āmbhi, king of Taxila, and afterwards surrender to Porus at the Jhelum River.
* c. 317 BCE – In quick succession, Alexander's general Eudemus and then the satrap Peithon withdraw from the Indus.
* 321 BCE-317 BCE Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan empire in eastern India, makes himself master of the northern and northwestern India, including Punjab. Chandragupta Maurya's advisor Kautilya (also known as Chanakya) was a teacher at Taxila.
* During the reign of Chandragupta's grandson Aśoka, Taxila became a great Buddhist centre of learning. Nonetheless, Taxila was briefly the center of a minor local rebellion, subdued only a few years after its onset.
* 185 BC – The last Maurya emperor, Bṛhadratha, is assassinated by his general, Puṣyamitra Śunga, during a parade of his troops.
* 183 BC – Demetrios conquers Gandhāra, the Punjab and the Indus valley. He builds his new capital, Sirkap, on the opposite bank of the river from Taxila. During this new period of Bactrian Greek rule, several dynasties (like Antialcidas) likely ruled from the city as their capital. During lulls in Greek rule, the city managed profitably on its own, managed independently and controlled by several local trade guilds, who also minted most of the city's autonomous coinage.
* c. 90 BC – The Indo-Scythian chief Maues overthrows the last Greek king of Taxila.
* c. 25 AD – Gondophares, founder of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom, conquers Taxila and makes it his capital.
* 76– The date of and inscription found at Taxila of 'Great King, King of Kings, Son of God, the Kushana' (maharaja rajatiraja devaputra Kushana).
* c. 460–470 – The Ephthalites sweep over Gandhāra and the Punjab; wholesale destruction of Buddhist monasteries and stupas at Taxila, which never again recovers.

Before the fall of these invader-kings, Taxila had been variously a capital for many dynasties, and a centre of Vedic and Buddhist learning, with a population of Buddhists, Classical Hindus, and possibly Greeks that may have endured for centuries.

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