Four Ancient Indian Coins to Seek for as a Collector

Old Indian coins have always been in the spotlight in the world of numismatists. These ancient Indian coins have a lot of historical value in the market which is why they are sold for impressive amounts at auction houses. Let’s take a look at some Rare Historical Coins of India that coin collectors from all over the globe love. 

Here is a scarce 1 Shatamana Silver Plated Copper and Copper coin of Gandhara Janapada. These beautiful ancient coins of India weighed around 11.3 grams and were struck using the Punch Marked technique somewhere between 600 BC and 300 BC. The designs were inscribed using two punches and were based on a flower theme. The obverse of these Indian old coins featured two six petal flowers while the reverse was left blank.


This is another scarce Karshapana Silver coin from Magadha Janapada that was struck between 600BC and 550 BC. These old Indian coins weighed around 3.5 and were produced using the punch marked technique. The obverse design featuring a sun, a six-armed symbol, a Taurine and a Bull was created using five separate punches. The Taurine is surrounded by dots on three sides while the bull is facing right.


This is one of the wonderful Indian ancient coins that were struck by Imperial Magadha Rulers of Magadha-Mauryan Empire somewhere between 600BC and 150BC. These irregular shaped silver coins bore the denomination Karshapana and weighed around 2.9 to 3.5 grams. They were struck using a punch-marked technique to create several interesting illustrations on the obverse like a six armed symbol; a Sun; bow and arrow; four taurines and an Elephant. You should consider yourself to be lucky if you have one of these historical Indian coins in your collection.

This old coin of India was issued by Kashi Janapada between 600BC and 525BC. These rare historical coins of India bore the denomination 5 Shana and were struck in 6.4 grams of silver. They were produced using the Punch Marked technique with four punches of two abstract symbols and two flowers on the obverse. Like most other ancient Indian coins, there were no designs on the other side.

Keep your eyes wide open for these stunning ancient coins of India!