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at Vadnagar', M. S. Uni. Journal, Vol. IV, No. 1, March 1955). These copper coins are of a single variety having five symbols on the obverse and are of the type that have been found at Ujjain, Bhilsa and Besanagar in the Madhya Pradesh. (Plate XIa). The symbols found on these coins are very interesting. (Plate X1b).
Uninscribed cast coins of copper bearing symbols similar to those found on the punch-marked coins were also issued in this country during the Mauryan period; and are found in many parts of India, but none is recorded so far from Gujarat.
The Northern Black Polished (N.B.P.) ware that was widely distributed in India during this period is discovered from Timbarva (Baroda Dist.) and Somanath (Dist. Sorath).
Associated with these ware have been discovered beads, conical terracotta objects and cylindrical cones, flesh-rubbers, mother-goddess figurines, arrow-heads and blades of iron and a copper ring. (Vide, R. N. Mehta, Excavations at Timbarva: p. 21, 23: 1955).
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