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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2511368, member: 76194"]One quick question...how do we know the Lydian stater was the first coin? After all, the Gandhara satamana was developed in the same time frame, 650 BCE to 600 BCE</p><p> Is it just a matter of Eurocentric collectors/scholars that have no clue about Indian coinage declaring the Lydian stater the first because it's the one they are familiar with, or is there any real scholarship behind that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2511368, member: 76194"]One quick question...how do we know the Lydian stater was the first coin? After all, the Gandhara satamana was developed in the same time frame, 650 BCE to 600 BCE Is it just a matter of Eurocentric collectors/scholars that have no clue about Indian coinage declaring the Lydian stater the first because it's the one they are familiar with, or is there any real scholarship behind that?[/QUOTE]
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