Archaeologists unearthed a pot of copper coins in first major discovery at Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan, in 93 years

Arkeonews ^ | November 18, 2023 | Oguz Kayra

[SunkenCiv]

The pot of coins.

Photo by Saeed Memon

[SunkenCiv]

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[Red Badger]

Counterfeiters....................

[Flag_This]

Find 4,348 pennies, pick them up.
All day long you'll have good luck.

[SunkenCiv]

Roman coins were familiar, and became the model for Indian coinage, interesting that the Kushan coins also emulated at least one Roman coin along with all the Hellenic ones.

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[telescope115]

Should be interesting to see them after they’ve been separated and cleaned.

[Red Badger]

All these coin hoards found all over the world from different times and peoples.

Makes you really wonder whatever happened to the hoarders.............

[Red Badger]

They will be on Cable TV soon enough..................

[Vaquero]

Copper eh? Well I suppose the numismatic value is through the roof.

[Towed_Jumper]

I’m pretty sure the Coinstar machine at my neighborhood grocery store can process that coin pile with no problem.

[SunkenCiv]

A Kushan princess showed up to open a savings account. She had a clay jar filled with thousands of coins. The bank manager said, "my goodness, did you hoard all that by yourself?" The princess said, "no, my sister hoard half of it."

[Red Badger]

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️😜🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🎶.............................

[qameliano]

Impressive

[C210N]

Probably not.

First thing we hear from our coin dealers is “DO NOT CLEAN YOUR COINS” - “IT WILL LOSE VALUE”.

[jagusafr]

Iranian influences.

Pretty sure that would be Persian, wouldn’t it?

[nwrep]

Yes, it should say Persian, not Iranian, for this period in history.

[moovova]

So..the rainbow actually ends in Pakistan?

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, that’s the era.

[SunkenCiv]

They’ll never take it alive.

[Cronos]

Kushans are descendants of Tocharians - Toch Aryan - who lived in what is now western China, until they were pushed out in 400 BC by the Xiongnu