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<p>[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 4288379, member: 91240"]Banker’s marks also appear on coins from Ancient India, probably inherited from the Achaemenids. Indian texts mention money authenticators similar to those in Roman texts, and it was done for the same reason, to authenticate that the coin was not a plated (fouree) copy. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cross and lunar marks on the center obverse of a shatamana of the Gandhara Janapada (circa 600 - 300 BC): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091641[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A steelyard scale (?) shaped mark on the reverse of a karshapana of the Maurya Empire, also countermarked with the ‘three men’ symbol (circa 272-232 BC, countermarked circa late third century BC):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091640[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 4288379, member: 91240"]Banker’s marks also appear on coins from Ancient India, probably inherited from the Achaemenids. Indian texts mention money authenticators similar to those in Roman texts, and it was done for the same reason, to authenticate that the coin was not a plated (fouree) copy. Cross and lunar marks on the center obverse of a shatamana of the Gandhara Janapada (circa 600 - 300 BC): [ATTACH=full]1091641[/ATTACH] A steelyard scale (?) shaped mark on the reverse of a karshapana of the Maurya Empire, also countermarked with the ‘three men’ symbol (circa 272-232 BC, countermarked circa late third century BC): [ATTACH=full]1091640[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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