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Indian Punch-marked Coins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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In the present paper, certain points are submitted for consideration with reference to Indian punch-marked coins. They are the result of an examination of two finds of punchmarked coins found in 1917, the one at Patna and the other at Gorho Ghat, north of the Ganges, in the Bhagalpur District of the Province of Bihar and Orissa. My examination of the Patna coins was published in the Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, 1919, pp. 17–72, and of the Gorho Ghat coins in the same Journal, 1919, pp. 463–94. I have since then examined a number of other punch-marked coins which have agreed with and supported the conclusions that were arrived at from the examination of the above two finds.

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Indian Section
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1924

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page 175 note 1 These coins are in the Bihar and Orissa Coin Cabinet in the Patna Museum. The Patna coins are serials, Nos. 723–830, and the Gorho Ghat coins Nos. 912–59 of the General Register.

page 176 note 1 Catalogue of Coins in the India Museum, Calcutta (‗ C.I.M.C.), vol. i, 1906, p. 133.

page 176 note 2 Ancient India, 1914, p. 151.

page 177 note 1 This type of symbol was found by Schlieman in the lowest stratum at Troy on terra-cotta whorls mixed with stone implements (Schlieman's Troy, pp. 80, 313, fig. 227). I would, therefore, for convenience, callit the “Troy Mark”.

page 179 note 1 Archæological Survey of India Annual Report (‗ ASIR.), 1905–6, p. 150.

page 179 note 2 ASIR. 1913–14, pp. 210–13, 220–6.

pgae 179 note 3 ASIR. 1905–6, p. 153.

page 183 note 1 “Excavations at Besnagar,” by R. D. Bhandarkar, M.A., ASIB. 1913–14, p. 210.

page 183 note 2 Kauṭilyā's Artha Śāstra, translated by R. Shamasastri, B.A., M.R.A.S., Government Oriental Library Series. Bibliotheca Sanskrita, No. 37, pt. ii, Bangalore Government Press, 1915.Google Scholar

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page 185 note 2 ASIR. 1905–6, pp. 156, 157.

page 185 note 3 E.g. CIMC, vol. i, pi. xix, figs. 2, 5–8, 11. Also CAL, pi. i, figs. 1–8, 13, and pi. ii (Taxila), figs. 1, 2.

page 185 note 4 JASB. 1890, pp. 215, 216 (Marks Nos. 27–33).

page 186 note 1 Bhandarkar, R. D. M.A., “Excavations at Besnagar,” ASIR. 19131914, p. 212.Google Scholar

page 188 note 1 JASB. 1910, p. 227.

page 188 note 2 The Taxila mark (PI. XIX, Pig. 55) occurs on the reverse of three of the Gorho Ghat coins.

page 189 note 1 JRAS. 1895, p. 874.

page 189 note 2 CAI., p. 58.