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The Hinduja Foundation is in the process of cataloguing and curating 34,000 coins of ancient India

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The untrained eye would perhaps disregard a seemingly featureless grey disc, about the size of a microchip. It looks quite like a stray bit of gravel. But at a secret location in Mumbai, this is carefully wrapped in butter paper, packed in an easy-seal pouch, and stored in a small courier envelope. It is in fact a precious artifact: a fractional silver coin, punch-marked more than 2,200 years ago by the Maurya empire. This is part of the repertoire of Lance Dane who gathered 34,000 coins, in various shapes, dimensions, and degrees of rareness, all belonging to ancient India. The former ...

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Minted and sealed