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Kings, Farmers And Towns
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Briefly describe the earliest gold coins.

Answer

It was the Kushanas that minted the first gold coins around first century CE, and were identical in weight with those issued by contemporary Roman emperors and the Parthian rulers of Iran. And later we find the Guptas producing gold coins. Their ealiest issues are remarkable for their purity.
It is assumed that production of gold coin could only mean that the value of trasaction were enormous.

However after 6th century CE we find very less evidence of the gold coins. 

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