{"id":126248,"date":"2022-12-01T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126248"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:32:05","slug":"punched-marked-coins-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/punched-marked-coins-3\/","title":{"rendered":"PUNCHED MARKED COINS: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 1 December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PUNCHED MARKED COINS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccdThe oldest coins found in the subcontinent are punch-marked coins, made mostly of silver, some of copper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccdUsually rectangular, sometimes square or round. These coins are often irregular in shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccdBlanks for making these coins were generally cut from a metal sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccdThe symbol or symbols were then hammered on these coins using dies or punches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccdMost of the silver punch-marked coins weighed 32 rattis or about 56 grains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccdThe 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNCHED MARKED COINS \ud83d\udccdThe oldest coins found in the subcontinent are punch-marked coins, made mostly of silver, some of copper. \ud83d\udccdUsually rectangular, sometimes square or round. These coins are often irregular in shape. \ud83d\udccdBlanks for making these coins were generally cut from a metal sheet. \ud83d\udccdThe symbol or symbols were then hammered on these coins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-126248","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\/126248","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=126248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126250,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126248\/revisions\/126250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126248"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=126248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}