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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 949933, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m a beginner in Indian but would guess your second coin as Kumaragupta I rather than one of the Kashatrapas that should have the mountain reverse.&nbsp; Perhaps someone here can straighten me out on this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The punchmarked coin is harder.&nbsp; Each piece of silver received five punches on one side and one on the other.&nbsp; They always overlap and wipe out some detail from each other.&nbsp; If you find one with five full and complete marks, it is a fake.&nbsp; Yours is a bigger mess than most.&nbsp; There are many kinds with a couple being much more common than most of the rest so they make a good place to start seeing if you can recognize the marks.&nbsp; The problem is that most used the same mark #1 and each mark after that narrows down the choices.&nbsp; If you have a clear strike of one particular mark, ID is simple but if your clear mark is another, ID may not be possible at my level of study.&nbsp; I attach one I believe to be a Samprati 216-207 BC that seems more clear than many and may be what yours is.... or not.&nbsp; I&#039;d just call it Mauryan c. 200 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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