History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c14.s3.1

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These difficulties faced in producing casts or repoussé coins could have been obviated by following another technique of minting. We are referring to the system of producing coins with the help of well prepared blanks and dies (each of which, meant to be impressed, with the exclusion of others, on obverse or reverse, bears a cohesive picture of devices related to one another or such devices and legends or only a meaningful legend or a part of it). This system was, at least in the early centuries of its use, a sophisticated development on the above noted archaic die-striking (including ‘punch-marking ’) methods.