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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 452941, member: 6229"]During the Third Century B.C. India's montery beginnings started with a Primitive coinage that consisted of punching and/or chopping information onto a measured amount of silver. Usually only one side of the coin received the punch marks. The marks indicate the province or territory where the crude coins were struck, the denomination, a caricature of the sun and a religious symbol representing Buddhism, Hindi or both. Here is a photo of a few of the crude coins at actual size (courtesy of Pomexport): <a href="http://www.pomexport.com/C%20-%20India%20Punch/PCC%20-%20India%20Punch_1x.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pomexport.com/C%20-%20India%20Punch/PCC%20-%20India%20Punch_1x.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.pomexport.com/C - India Punch/PCC - India Punch_1x.jpg</a>  Here's an enlarged photo for a closer view of the coins: <a href="http://www.pomexport.com/C%20-%20India%20Punch/PCC%20-%20India%20Punch_4x.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pomexport.com/C%20-%20India%20Punch/PCC%20-%20India%20Punch_4x.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.pomexport.com/C - India Punch/PCC - India Punch_4x.jpg</a>  As exiting a find as these Primitive India coins are, I want to show you a much older coin from a country located a long way from India. To do this we must go backwards into the past more than 800 years to Crete. This AR Drachm weighing 4.08 grams is the target of our visit (courtesy Coin Archives): Click image for an enlargement of the coin: <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=84017&AucID=90&Lot=601" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=84017&AucID=90&Lot=601" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=84017&AucID=90&Lot=601</a>   You know of another crude (punched) coinage period which includes Mexico, Central and South Spanish-America including Hispaniola which are referred to as Cobs, so I present one to you courtesy of Coin Archives: <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=371238&AucID=275&Lot=276" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=371238&AucID=275&Lot=276" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=371238&AucID=275&Lot=276</a>  During a period spanning the years 1185 to 1195 a crude form of billon called Angels was struck in three Byzantine cities (Constaninople, Tetatera, Thesalonia). It is ball-shaped. An image of an Angel was stamped on them. Here's a photo of a pile of the antique coins courtesy Coin Archives: <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=214358&AucID=294&Lot=234" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=214358&AucID=294&Lot=234" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=214358&AucID=294&Lot=234</a>  That's the scope of this "trivia." Anything you want to add, note, opine or a photo to share? Clinker  [/QUOTE]

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