Tribes in Ancient India c50.370

c50.370

Pāṭaliputra coins had their own individual marks.¹ The discoveries of punch-marked coins give the death-blow to the theory that all symbols on them ‘were affixed haphazard by shroffs and moneyers through whose hands the coins passed’, and give rise to the incontestable conclusion that they constitute ‘coinages’ peculiar to three different provincial towns, one belonging to Taxila, the second to Pāṭaliputra, and the third to Vidiśā (Bhilsā) of Central India.²