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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NormW, post: 2564215, member: 46682&quot;]I picked this up on whim, because it was 50% off and I thought it was Greco-Bactrian. And of course it was another cool, fat coin.&nbsp; It looks like the planchet was chiseled out of thick sheet of bronze.&nbsp; After investigating, I found that it is actually a Precursor to the Greco-Bactrian coin I thought it was.&nbsp; I found this interesting note on Bob Reis&#039;s website:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>INDIA</u>,</b>post-punchmarked municipal coins.&nbsp; The Mauryan-Sunga empire shrank in the 2nd century BC, leaving the outlying provinces to their own devices.&nbsp; Some of them were swallowed up by invaders like the Greeks.&nbsp; Actually all of them fell to this or that conqueror eventually.&nbsp; But some managed to hold on and run their affairs on their own for a time.&nbsp; Pushkalavati (Peshawar), for example, was run by its commercial guilds (modern term: &quot;banks&quot;) for a while.&nbsp; These entities struck a series of municipal copper coins that became the model for the square Greek bronzes after those guys conquered the region.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]553226[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]553227[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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