Help with classifying silver punch-marked coins (coin 5)

Hi

Can someone please help me classify this?

 

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I can't help you identify your coins but your background definitely looks like Naugahyde, circa 1969.

 

lol...cover of an old Redbook?

Looks like it might be a "2 bits" cut from a whole. You can post one thread with 5 pics too.....save the limited amount of fresh threads visable......................................

 

Actually, it's an year book, circa 2005.

 

Oops!

 

I agree, but in this case I thought posting all five in the same thread could make things a bit confusing.

 

Hi, all the 5 coins you've posted belongs to the Maurya Empire (India 310-181). They are famously called 'siver karshapanas'. And these can be easily distinguishable by the presence of a Sun symbol. Refer the following link. http://www.nupam.com/ancient1.html

 

This one and the other four you have posted are classified as "Series IV" punchmark coins from Northern India. They are classified in 5 different series based on primary symbol found on one corner.

Dr P.LGupta and T.Hardekar wrote a very good book on these coins and have listed around 500+ different coins based on different symbol combination. This catalog number is often used by Indian dealers when offering punchmark coins.

I recently purchased another book on this series written by Dr. Dilip Rajgor and highly recommend this to anybody interested in these coins.

Regards,
Ballabh Garg

 

Spiraltreet and Ballabh, thanks a lot for your help.

Ballabh, I will definitely get both books recommended by you. BTW, will these also allow me to classify copper punch-marked coins?

 

Both of these books have a section for copper punchmarks. But they talk mostly about the minting process and some big hoard finds etc. for copper punchmarks.

Punchmarks are classified based on the symbols and it doesn't matter if they are on silver or copper. If the symbols are identical on silver and copper, both of them will belong to same series, empire, ruler and janapada.

While browsing my books on this subject, I found another good book on Punchmarks written by P. Gregory Warden with title "A Classification of the Symbols on Indian Silver Punch-marked coins". It says that the author completed his M.A. in the same subject from Bryn, Mawr College, Pennsylvania and then received his doctorate from department of Near Eastern archaeology of same college.

Regards,
Ballabh Garg

 

I have one piece very similar to that...