{"id":106774,"date":"2022-05-03T22:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=106774"},"modified":"2022-05-03T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:01:51","slug":"punched-marked-coins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/punched-marked-coins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PUNCHED MARKED COINS: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 3 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PUNCHED MARKED COINS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713The oldest coins found in the subcontinent are punch-marked coins, made mostly of silver, some of copper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713Usually rectangular, sometimes square or round. These coins are often irregular in shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713Blanks for making these coins were generally cut from a metal sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713The symbol or symbols were then hammered on these coins using dies or punches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713Most of the silver punch-marked coins weighed 32 rattis or about 56 grains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713The punch-marked coins of northern India can be divided into four main series :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Taxila Gandhara type of the north-west with a heavy weight standard and a single punch type;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Kosala type of the middle Ganga valley, with a heavy weight standard&nbsp; and multiple punch marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Avanti type of western India, with a light weight standard and single&nbsp; punch mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Magadhan type with a light weight standard and multiple punches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-background-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/upsc-daily-current-affairs-quiz-3-may-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UPSC Daily Current Affairs Quiz \u2013 3 May 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-base-2-background-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/upsc-daily-static-quiz-3-may-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UPSC Daily Static Quiz \u2013 3 May 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNCHED MARKED COINS \u2713The oldest coins found in the subcontinent are punch-marked coins, made mostly of silver, some of copper. \u2713Usually rectangular, sometimes square or round. These coins are often irregular in shape. \u2713Blanks for making these coins were generally cut from a metal sheet. \u2713The symbol or symbols were then hammered on these coins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":106775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"class_list":["post-106774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106793,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106774\/revisions\/106793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}