Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c10.6

c10.6

¹ Rapson held this view; he recognised some symbols thus countermarked as similar to those found on Indian punch-marked coins, and other marks he explained as resembling several Brāhmī and Kharoshṭhī letters: JRAS. 1895, pp. 865. ff. E. Babelon attributed these countermarks to other countries of Asia, such as, Lycia, Pamphylia, Cilicia and Cyprus; Les Perses Achemenides p. xi. G. Macdonald says 'that the results of the most recent investigation (Hill, JHS. 1919, pp. 125 ff.) rather tend to bear out his opinion' though he does not ignore the noteworthy similarity between them and the Indian punchmarks: CHI. I, 344.