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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3316811, member: 98035&quot;][USER=74834]@Pellinore[/USER] this is sadly uncharted territory within Indian numismatics. Maheshwari&#039;s <i>Imitations in Continuity </i>is the only book that gives more than a glancing overview to these, but he doesn&#039;t make any mention of countermarks, and I don&#039;t recall seeing any in his plates - I&#039;ll have to double check. I have been buying/researching these coins for almost 3 years, and the only three c/m coins I&#039;ve ever seen have gone up for sale in the past four months.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were the product of a relative dark age for India after the fall of the Gupta (and Harsha) and under the shadow of the Muslim invaders. They were probably contemporary to the &quot;Sri Ha&quot; types, and maybe the Pratiharas up until the time of Bhoja. Other than the Indo-Sassanian coins, the only silver in circulation in India were small ~1g coins in Sindh and among the Rashtrakutas to the south. To the best of my understanding, these coins were made much like the Maria Theresa thalers - capitalizing on a recognized design motif to mint bullion trade coins that were design-frozen for centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER], I have one more with the smaller star. I&#039;m hoping to get that one imaged soon, too. The only other countermarked Indian coins I have are of the Kshatrapas, and then later Rupees. Heck, it isn&#039;t inconceivable that at least one of the countermarks was applied during the Islamic dynasties, since apparently these things <b>still </b>circulate in rural areas:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/indo-Sassanian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/indo-Sassanian.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mrbrklyn.com/indo-Sassanian.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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