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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 2283239, member: 44140&quot;]...and the die says, &quot;Hey Bar, Get Bent!&quot; </p><p>&nbsp;Dry, huh? Oh well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I scored a lot of Bent bars some to stock and some to rock.</p><p><br /></p><p>I selected this piece from the lot for my personal collection. There have been several great threads on the Early Gandhara bent bars. In my collection I possessed a debased bent bar and one of the last independent Gandhara punchmark coins. Chronology of the series is quite interesting large high purity specimens are thought to be the earliest coins of Gandhara, India and possibly the world. These coins were once thought to have been introduced to Gandhara in the mid 6th century BC Persia. Scholarly thought has changed and it is now accepted as an independent invention of coinage or at least a struck piece of metal with a set value issued by an authority.&nbsp; circa ~ BC 650. Feel Free to &quot;google&quot; &quot;bent bars&quot; and read all the different theories. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is the sharpest of the lot in my opinion, with nice clear Gandhara symbols. I would say its pretty minty for BC 650.</p><p><br /></p><p>India, </p><p>Taxila, Gandhara Janapada </p><p>AR Shatamana (bent bar/ double siglos)</p><p>BC 650 - 600</p><p>34mm x 10mm x 11.48 grams</p><p>Obverse: Two Gandhara Six-Armed Symbols.</p><p>Reverse: Blank.</p><p>Note: Choice and beautiful. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]456721[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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