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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1998591, member: 26302&quot;]From my point of view, you are concentrating too much on Burmese sources. Almost all of these coins have strong nationalistic bents to them, i.e. wanting to be seen as their nation was more important than others. </p><p><br /></p><p>Funan truly was the foundational civilization of the area. Think of the importance of Babylon and ancient Egypt on all subsequent civilizations. Chinese emissaries to the court in Funan wrote of the abundance of large silver coins ni use by the country, so if you are saying All of these were actually later struck in Pyu&nbsp; few centuries later then you will be disagreeing with Chinese who actually visited Funan and wrote about it at the time. Just because we haven&#039;t found the foundries, (and I do not know if that is the case), does not invalidate this reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>All throughout SE Asia, Funan was the from which subsequent civilizations and coinage sprung. Early Annam, Dvaravati, Pyu, Khmer, and others all sprung from this foundation and shortly after started coinage. So, it makes sense almost all of these &quot;daughter kingdoms&quot; effectively imitated Funan coinage in many ways. The only major variance is Annam, which instead copied Chinese prototypes, which they were more closely associated with.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are books about this area. Michiner covers it, there are passages in Chinese chronicles, and many other books. Too bad you do not live closer, you could read about a dozen books or more I own on the subject. You are right, its not settled but from my reading is not as Burmese oriented as you have read. Its more systemic throughout the region.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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