DescriptionThe “anonymous post-Shahi” coins were made by various ephemeral local power holders in the eastern Aghanistan – western Pakistan region during the decades following the overthrow of the Shahis by the Arab governor of Sistan. The records are not good. There were several different issuers, we don’t know any of them. Some of them are very common, indicating that someone was doing all right at that time, in that place.The earliest ancient Indian coins were the “bent bar” punchmarked silvers of the Achaemenid Persians occupying Gandhara in northwest Pakistan. By the 3rd century BC coins were in general use in most of India and Ceylon, and in subsequent centuries struck round coins in gold, silver, and copper came into use throughout the subcontinent and beyond to Southeast Asia and Pacific islands to Java and beyond.
