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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 986018, member: 26302&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect a lot of coins from this area of the world. To me, India, (ancient India encompassing modern day Pakistan and Bangladesh), and Burma pretty much is South Asia. East Asia is what you described, China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia. Central Asia is west of China, south of Siberia, and East of the Black Sea and north of India. Parthia and Sassania consisted parts in the middle east and parts in Central Asia, while most Hepthalites ruled in Central Asia except for the later issues coined in India. Issues like this and Shahis are hard, since technically they switched from Central to South Asia, even though to them it wasn&#039;t that far. I lump all of my Hepthalites into Central Asia since they minted more time there than South Asia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could be wrong, this is just what I get from my readings on Central Asia and numismatic classifications. Hope this helped. I do have the series printed by the UN, &quot;Central Asia&quot; and the geography I describe matches their coverage in these books as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, which Yahoo newsgroups is the controversy on? I subscribe to them all but admit much of the time do not read them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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