Nashik’s “counter” versions of these objects with a “three-arched hill” suggest Sātavāhana conflict with the Kshatrapa (“SHAH-trop”) Nahapāna. “Tribal” types of the objects with a nandipada attest to republican gaṇas like the Yaudheyas. The Kushans adopted styles of these objects from Ai-Khanoum’s Yona kings, like Agathocles, who used them to promote the cults of Balarāma and Vāsudeva and trace his “pedigree.” Eucratides I made a giant version of these objects after the Diodotids retook their production from the Euthydemids in Bactria. These objects date the Yavana era. India’s “punch-marked” types of these objects were replaced by versions of Hellenistic philíppeioi, which supplanted Achaemenid ones like darics and sigloi and matched the Euboic standard of Attic talents. For 10 points, Alyattes of Lydia made electrum into what objects that include the stater and drachma? ■END■
ANSWER: coins [or coinage; accept medals, medallions, médailles, or croesids, accept drachmas or tetrádrachmon until “drachma” is read; accept talents or stater until each is read; prompt on money, currency, cash, or equivalents; prompt on weights, precious metals, silver, Ag, gold, Au, copper, Cu, or electrum by asking “made into what objects?”] (The first line refers to counterstruck coins.)
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