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LKCC - CHAPTER III


ANCIENT COINS

The coins of the period are :
(i)Punch Mark (Eldling), Purana or Kahapanas ;
(ii)Single-die coins in silver and copper ;
(iii)Early Pandyan ;
(iv)Coins of various obverse types and railed swastika reverse ;
(v)Rectangular " Bull type "
(vi)The " Mane-less Lion " type, which can be fixed definitely as being in use in the reign of Mahasen A.D.277-304 ;
(vii)Plaques of the Lakshmi and Swastika
(viii)Roman, the majority of which are " third brass " of Constantine the Great and his successors to the reign of Theodosius II ;
(ix)Indo-Roman, of native make, the best imitations being of the fifth or even fourth centuries while the most degraded nay date from the sixth ;
(x)Miscellaneous, comprising among others two stray. Parthian drachmas, a few Sassanian copper coins and late Gupta hemidrachms of the Rudradamaka kahapana types.
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