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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3235430, member: 98035&quot;]Sometimes, it isn&#039;t possible to throw forth anything resembling a guess. India and Central Asia in particular saw several extremely long-lived series of imitations, some of which lasted up to a millennium past their prototypes. One of my favorite examples is the &quot;archer&quot; type coin from Soghd along the silk road:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]845835[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The type originates obliquely from Seleucid coinage; the earliest iterations still contain a literate legend ANTIOXOY. Some experts on the series have proposed that once the coins reached the anepigraphic phase, they may have remained in production until the middle ages, possibly as late as the Islamic conquests.</p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, the famous Chinese Wu Zhu cash coins were made to such tight standards that most aren&#039;t possible to attribute them more narrowly than their entire 700+ year production run.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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