Plates I, II and III

‘MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHÆOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA’

No. 59

PUNCH-MARKED COINS FROM TAXILA

By

Mr. E. H. C. WALSH, C.S.I., M.A., (Retd. I.C.S.),

Honorary Correspondent, Archæological Survey of India

Delhi (1939)

An Examination of a Hoard of 1171 Silver Punch-marked Coins of the Older Class, Long-Bar Coins and Minute Coins found in the Bhir-Mound

at Taxila in 1924 and a Hoard of 167 Debased Silver Punch-marked Coins of the Later Class found in the Bhir-Mound at Taxila in 1912.

PLATE I: THE OBVERSE MARKS OF THE OLDER COINS, THE BAR-COINS AND THE MINUTE COINS

PLATE II: THE REVERSE MARKS

PLATE III: THE OLDER COINS REVERSE MARKS (Continued); COUNTERMARKS ON THE BAR-COINS; THE LATER COINS – OBVERSE MARKS, REVERSE MARKS; VARIETIES OF THE “TAXILA MARK”; OTHER REVERSE MARKS