An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c8.s1.7

v1.c8.s1.7

The SUNET moulds are single coin discs. They bear the coin impression—obverse or reverse as the case may be—only on one face, the other being either flat or slightly convex. Each pair of devices, when coupled face to face, would have its two exposed sides blank. A number of such pairs were placed parallel to each other with a layer of plaster laid between the contiguous pairs. The whole series was then plastered over on the outside with the same binding material, care being taken to leave open all the channels into the sockets. The metal might have been poured into a single common channel communicating with all the sockets; such a channel would either be an open trough cut into the side of the cylinder or a single longitudinal channel connecting all the transverse subchannels, with possibly a funnel-like crater at the end, the metal being poured in a vertical position.