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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3317713, member: 93416&quot;]This sort of countermarking was of course very common on middle period Maghada/Mauryan coins, and again much later on Bengal tankas.&nbsp; As Finn235 says, it is pretty rare on Indo-Sasanid.&nbsp; Its more common on Western Satraps.&nbsp; I suppose its possible the c/m&#039;s were added much later - but personally - I doubt it. More likely it was just a local fad that did not much take off in the I-S case - I would guess</p><p><br /></p><p>From Rogers (<i>Charles J. Rogers, Coins Collecting in Northern Indian)</i>&nbsp; its seems many very old coins passed sluggishly through the hands of Indian money changers in the 19th century.&nbsp; Actually there was a guy in my class at school, many years ago now, whose father ran a betting shop.&nbsp; I recall he had all sorts of rather old coins that impecunious punters had turned up with, even in the UK around the 1960&#039;s[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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