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According to Gupta and Hardaker, the Series VIb coins date to c. 270-175 BCE, the time of the great Mauryan emperor Ashoka and his successors. Ashoka, of course, was the emperor who spread the word of the Buddha throughout his empire.
The reverse of this coin has a mark that is, almost certainly, an official mark, not a banker's mark, as the coins in this series almost always have these small versions of official marks on them. A SUPERB specimen! |