Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c12.s6.12

c12.s6.12

To the same period as the Older Class of silver punch-marked coins as well as the bent bar coins belongs, if we are to judge from their simultaneous occurrence in the same Taxila deposit of *c.* 317 B.C., a group of minute silver coins with a single obverse mark and a blank reverse⁴. They have been found not only on the site of Taxila, but also at Thathari in the Madhya Pradesh⁵.