History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c14.s3.24

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This situation explains the hopelessly debased materials used in minting several series of die-struck specie in post-Gupta India (Mukherjee, 1982,pp. 39,41, 43, 49 etc). On many coins the figures are ill-executed and even grotesque, obviously due (partly or fully) to deficiency (a) in the merit of the designer, and/or die engraver (or designer-cum-die-engraver), and (b) in the metal of the die, and also (c) in the technique of minting.