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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5163499, member: 109923"]Thank you for this. It helps demystify them a little more. They're certainly not easy to identify - it's like a Roman coin with each word of the legend stamped in different directions and on top of each other. It's quite an accomplishment to discover something worthy of publication!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one Mauryan coin, and even when I'm told the symbols on it, I still can't quite figure it out...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1210144[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Ashoka silver karshapana, 268-232BC, Mathura? 13mm, 3.30g. (Gupta/Hardaker ISPC 511; Mitchiner ACW 4229ff).</b> Five punched symbols including sun, three-armed symbol and Ashoka's symbol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5163499, member: 109923"]Thank you for this. It helps demystify them a little more. They're certainly not easy to identify - it's like a Roman coin with each word of the legend stamped in different directions and on top of each other. It's quite an accomplishment to discover something worthy of publication! I have one Mauryan coin, and even when I'm told the symbols on it, I still can't quite figure it out... [ATTACH=full]1210144[/ATTACH] [B]Ashoka silver karshapana, 268-232BC, Mathura? 13mm, 3.30g. (Gupta/Hardaker ISPC 511; Mitchiner ACW 4229ff).[/B] Five punched symbols including sun, three-armed symbol and Ashoka's symbol[/QUOTE]
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