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Punch-marked Silver Coins Their Standard of Weight, Age, and Minting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

E. H. C. Walsh
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In this Journal for January, 1937, Mr. A. F. Hemmy, from an exhaustive examination of the weights of silver punch-marked coins, “570 in the British Museum, 196 in Calcutta, and a single hoard of 108 coins (of which 103 are included) found near Patna, and now in the museum of that place; in all, 869 coins,” shows that (excluding a small number of the coins, 4 per cent only, which Mr. Hemmy considers have a different standard), the standard of weight of these coins is 52 grains, which multiplied by 4 is 208, and that the standard is therefore one-fourth of the revised principal unit of the Indus (Mohenjo-Daro) system of weights, viz. 13·625 gm. = 210·2 gr.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , April 1937 , pp. 293 - 304
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1937

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