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Message:: [QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3310735, member: 93416"]Great to hear you got ATEE.  Seems to me Dr M does a huge amount of work and probably sees a limited return, often enough. I see where you are coming from. On India, we have no clinching evidence, but Mitchiner follows a similar track to Cribb. Also Hardaker thinks that at least the concept of coins likely came to India from the west. So there is a kind of consensus building, at least in the UK. On China - I too was at first taken aback by the Mitchiner suggestion, and his evidence concerning fish shaped things seems thin to me. However, if the chronology that people these days prefer is correct - earliest Chinese issues about 500 BC – then that alone points to the possibility that “the concept” of coinage arrived in China from Greece. All I can add is that over time I find that idea growing on me. Clearly if someone in China actually saw a Greeky type coin and got the drift of how they were being used, then he must have thought – “that’s not quite how I would do it”. But that would be a natural human trait too, I think. But my main point was about the mechanisms of change. On that I found books by P N Ure and Leslie Kurke very helpful Rob T[/QUOTE]