Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c10.5

c10.5

² M. Decourdemanche, however, was of opinion that most, if not all, of the punch-marked coins belong to the Achaemenid monetary system, these being nothing but a variety of the Indian issues of the Achaemenid Persian emperors: *Journal Asiatique*, 1912, pp. 117-132. D.R. Bhandarkar opposes this view; cf. *Carmichael Lectures*, 1921, pp. 118-22. J. Allan thinks that the thick silver bent bars with devices on their concave side, found in some parts of north-western India, 'are struck on a Persian standard and represent double sigloi or staters, half and quarter sigloi, *CAI*. p. xvi, 1-3.