Chowri and Phuti Chowri
130 varieties of cowries are found in the world of which around 40 are available in India. Those ceased to be used when the Indian government issued coins of very low denomination. Almost all the rulers of the various Indian States issued their own unique coins of different shapes, sizes, weights and denominations, in gold, silver, brass and other metals.
Early coins were die-struck manually and therefore were not uniform in shape and design. The earliest of such coins were castes coins & die-struck only on one side, and were thus uni face and because they had one to five marks incused on a single side, they are termed 'Punch Mark' coins.
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