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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 4590221, member: 26302&quot;]I have read the much earlier dating of Indian coins, but that is an older idea. It came up around the same time as some were dating Chinese coins to 8th century BC and some were trying to make a case of Lydian coins going back just as far. I think we had an &quot;arms race&quot; of different cultures trying to claim &quot;oldest coin&quot; personally. It is almost always researchers native tot he area making these much older claims, so a little ethnic pride I would say might have been in place. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would date earliest Indian coins around 370-400BC as well. I was just curious if anyone had ever heard of a series of proto-money in India, (I hadn&#039;t), that could possibly support an earlier date. Without proto-money, I would say the case is sealed for borrowing the idea from others, which would by definition put it later than the other 2 centers of coinage innovation. </p><p><br /></p><p>I find it interesting how this idea went south but not north. Sogdia never had coins struck there until after Alexander.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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