An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c10.s4.1

v1.c10.s4.1

Coins occupy a prominent place among datable antiquities. Many coins can be dated to a particular period on the basis of the identification of the striker, of palaeographic character of the script occurring on it, of literary or epigraphic evidence or of their contemporaneity with an associated object of determined date. And in a closely observed archaeological excavation if the coin can be dated all associated objects, i.e. those found in that particular stratum, can also be placed in the same chronological horizon.