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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8197204, member: 98035&quot;][USER=57364]@THCoins[/USER] - Good point, but I still wonder if there was supposedly so little oversight, how did the design change slightly and yet the details (structuring of the attendants, number of pellets in the flame, even the number of pellets in the sun) remain so constant? I don&#039;t have any good answers, but I struggle to think of another type of coin subject to imitative drift where the design was so deliberately schematized, and it wasn&#039;t until the very end of the Gadhaiya that we see the attendants disintegrate into meaningless clumps of dots</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435825[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe I heard Deyell postulate that most/all of the Gadhaiya coinage was minted not by a government authority, but by a trade guild of Jain merchants. And while that makes sense in many ways, as someone who manages business requirements for IT for a living, the idea that they could be given a little artistic freedom but not completely lose the design within a decade, let alone 150-250 years, is beyond comprehension, unless of course there were strictly enforced rules about the creation of these coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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