Punch-marked coins
Do you know what a coin is? It's like a small, flat piece of metal that people use to buy things. In ancient times, people used to make coins by punching marks on them.
Imagine you have a piece of paper. When you punch a hole in it with a hole-punch, you can see the hole and the paper around it. It's the same with punch-marked coins. People would take a piece of metal and punch a mark on it, so you could see the mark and the metal around it.
These coins were used a long time ago, before modern coins were made. They were used in India, more than 2,500 years ago, when there were many different kingdoms and people didn't have a common currency.
The marks on the coins were usually symbols or letters that represented the kings or dynasties who made them. They could also have shapes that represented different things like animals, plants, or weapons.
Each coin was different, so people had to know what each mark on the coin meant. This could be difficult back then, without the internet or books to tell you what the symbols meant.
Punch-marked coins are very interesting because they tell us about what people used to use to buy things a long time ago, and they help us understand how people communicated with each other before we had written language or coins with pictures on them.
Imagine you have a piece of paper. When you punch a hole in it with a hole-punch, you can see the hole and the paper around it. It's the same with punch-marked coins. People would take a piece of metal and punch a mark on it, so you could see the mark and the metal around it.
These coins were used a long time ago, before modern coins were made. They were used in India, more than 2,500 years ago, when there were many different kingdoms and people didn't have a common currency.
The marks on the coins were usually symbols or letters that represented the kings or dynasties who made them. They could also have shapes that represented different things like animals, plants, or weapons.
Each coin was different, so people had to know what each mark on the coin meant. This could be difficult back then, without the internet or books to tell you what the symbols meant.
Punch-marked coins are very interesting because they tell us about what people used to use to buy things a long time ago, and they help us understand how people communicated with each other before we had written language or coins with pictures on them.
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