Editing Coin (section)

====Indian coins (c. 400 BC – AD 100)====
{{main|Punch-marked_coins#Indian_punch-marked_coins}}
{{see also|Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley|Coinage of India}}
[[File:Hoard of mostly Mauryan coins.jpg|thumb|Hoard of mostly [[Mauryan Empire]] coins, 3rd century BC]]
The [[Karshapana]] is the earliest [[punch-marked coin]] found in India, produced from at least the mid-4th century BC, and possibly as early as 575 BC,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=HARDAKER|first=TERRY R.|date=1975|title=The origins of coinage in northern India|journal=The Numismatic Chronicle|volume=15|pages=200–203|jstor=42666515}}</ref> influenced by similar coins produced in [[Gandhara]] under the Achaemenid empire, such as those of the [[Kabul hoard]],<ref>{{cite journal|url= https://www.academia.edu/33456187 |title=Investigating the introduction of coinage in India – a review of recent research |journal =Journal of the Numismatic Society of India |volume =xlv |publisher =Varanasi |date =1983|last1=Cribb|first1=Joe |pages=85–86, 101|language=en}}</ref> or other examples found at [[Pushkalavati]] and in [[Bhir Mound]].<ref name="CNG 309206">[https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=309206 372. Lot: 658, Lot of two AR bent bars], CNG Coins.
{{harvnb |Bopearachchi & Cribb, Coins illustrating the History of the Crossroads of Asia|1992|pp=57–59}}: "Silver bent-bar punch-marked coin of Kabul region under the Achaemenid Empire, c.350 BC: Coins of this type found in quantity in Chaman Hazouri and Bhir Mound hoards." (Commentary by [[Joe Cribb]] and [[Osmund Bopearachchi]])</ref>