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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 5165813, member: 93416"]Magadha/Mauryan PMCs remain for me the greatest of unsolved numismatic puzzles. Yet they remain for the most part unconsidered and unloved. Back in the 1970’s I spoke to an Indian collector who told me of a then recent hoard of 26KG - most of which had gone into the melting pot unstudied.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scale of the coinage was huge – surely rivaling that of Republican Rome. We know of Mauryan silver mines in Rajasthan that ran 260 meters below the water table. A spiraling staircase allowed manual draining – men running - day and night - carrying water buckets up and down. Close by is a huge strip mine for silver – as I understand it using a pioneering technique only re-invented (for coal) in 19th century America.</p><p><br /></p><p>My great good fortune was to join the Oriental Numismatic Society, founded by Michael Broome, and attend meets in private houses around London in the 1970’s. I think it was at Nick Rhodes’ house back then I got a ringside seat at an impassioned exchange between the late Terry Hardaker and the great Michael Mitchiner on the attribution of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>About that time I formed a plan to try solve the PMC puzzle myself - but sadly - wishing to do something got me nowhere by itself. It was later on that I played a part in getting a bunch of coins from the market place loaned to the BM to get them studied (sadly something that modern academia dictates is no longer even allowed!). The coins were excellently attributed by Liz Errington, but I felt there were very serious shortfalls in her interpretation of the data. I should confess it was her criticisms of me personally that pushed me to dig deep into her statistics and led to the only (small) contribution I am going to make to these matters. Such is life.</p><p><br /></p><p>The phenomenon that [USER=91240]@SeptimusT[/USER] writes on is one that Terry Hardaker spotted but I overlooked. Never the less, it tends to contradict his interpretation and favour mine - as the paper points out.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=91240]@SeptimusT[/USER] looks like a young guy in his photo. For sure I will not live to see the PMC myseries solved, but its good to think someone else is carrying on the struggle. Maybe he will yet solve them?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 5165813, member: 93416"]Magadha/Mauryan PMCs remain for me the greatest of unsolved numismatic puzzles. Yet they remain for the most part unconsidered and unloved. Back in the 1970’s I spoke to an Indian collector who told me of a then recent hoard of 26KG - most of which had gone into the melting pot unstudied. The scale of the coinage was huge – surely rivaling that of Republican Rome. We know of Mauryan silver mines in Rajasthan that ran 260 meters below the water table. A spiraling staircase allowed manual draining – men running - day and night - carrying water buckets up and down. Close by is a huge strip mine for silver – as I understand it using a pioneering technique only re-invented (for coal) in 19th century America. My great good fortune was to join the Oriental Numismatic Society, founded by Michael Broome, and attend meets in private houses around London in the 1970’s. I think it was at Nick Rhodes’ house back then I got a ringside seat at an impassioned exchange between the late Terry Hardaker and the great Michael Mitchiner on the attribution of these coins. About that time I formed a plan to try solve the PMC puzzle myself - but sadly - wishing to do something got me nowhere by itself. It was later on that I played a part in getting a bunch of coins from the market place loaned to the BM to get them studied (sadly something that modern academia dictates is no longer even allowed!). The coins were excellently attributed by Liz Errington, but I felt there were very serious shortfalls in her interpretation of the data. I should confess it was her criticisms of me personally that pushed me to dig deep into her statistics and led to the only (small) contribution I am going to make to these matters. Such is life. The phenomenon that [USER=91240]@SeptimusT[/USER] writes on is one that Terry Hardaker spotted but I overlooked. Never the less, it tends to contradict his interpretation and favour mine - as the paper points out. [USER=91240]@SeptimusT[/USER] looks like a young guy in his photo. For sure I will not live to see the PMC myseries solved, but its good to think someone else is carrying on the struggle. Maybe he will yet solve them? Rob[/QUOTE]
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