History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c14.s1.13

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B. Sahni thinks that at first a clay disc was prepared around a peg on the middle of a base plate enclosed by a hollow cylinder. Then an eight-rayed metal with a hollow centre was slipped down the peg and pressed on the clay. At the end of each of the radiating channel, thus excavated, “a coin model” was pressed to create a coin socket bearing the negative impression of the obverse or reverse concerned.