Punch-marked Silver Coins Their Standard of Weight, Age, and Minting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9271950 |
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| Authors | E H C Walsh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1937 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-304 |
| Publication date | 1937-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00085439 |
| OpenAlex | W2158820650 |
| Language | EN |
In this Journal for January, 1937, Mr. A. F. Hemmy, from an exhaustive examination of the weights of silver punch-marked coins, “570 in the British Museum, 196 in Calcutta, and a single hoard of 108 coins (of which 103 are included) found near Patna, and now in the museum of that place; in all, 869 coins,” shows that (excluding a small number of the coins, 4 per cent only, which Mr. Hemmy considers have a different standard), the standard of weight of these coins is 52 grains, which multiplied by 4 is 208, and that the standard is therefore one-fourth of the revised principal unit of the Indus (Mohenjo-Daro) system of weights, viz. 13·625 gm. = 210·2 gr
Ancient history · Art · Hoard · Numismatics · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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