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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4356166, member: 98035&quot;]Very nice coins, all!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve dabbled a bit in almost every corner of India from 600 BC to the 21st century, but PMC isn&#039;t an area I have collected seriously - mainly just looking for a good deal where I can find one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like Doug, I collect Maurya AR mainly by shape</p><p><br /></p><p>Square:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101845[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Round</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101846[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the two famous &quot;three figures&quot; type with three separate punches</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101844[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A post-Maurya (Sunga?) dreadful billon </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101847[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A tiny Ujjain copper PMC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101848[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And while I do not actively seek them out, I was able to nab two large-module Magadha karshapana that were mis-attributed as Maurya (and sold at Maurya prices!)</p><p><br /></p><p>This was kindly identified a couple years ago by [USER=93416]@EWC3[/USER] as GH305 (series III) struck on GH283[ATTACH=full]1101853[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one i picked up a few weeks ago and don&#039;t have an ID for</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101852[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And just for fun, some other pre-Maurya PMC</p><p><br /></p><p>Gandhara AR Shatamana - currently on my desk because it won&#039;t fit in a 2x2!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1101855[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Kuru 1/2 karshapana (triskeles) with six-arm counterstamp on reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1101857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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