. The earliest evidence of silver in India is found in the
(a) Harappan culture
(b) Chalcolithic cultures of Western India
(c) Vedic texts
(d) Silver punch-marked coins
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Answer / jayakumar
b) Chalcolithic culters of Western India.
The hoards from Gungeria(MP) has copper tools and thin
sheets of silver objects.
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Answer / preeti gupta
(c) vedic texts
bcz-->Most likely the first coins of India were minted
just before 5th century BC in northern and central India.
Although, few historian have suggested (based on vedic
records) that India minted perhaps the first coins of the
world which were introduced even earlier than Lydian/Ionian
coins, in 8th century BC; most scholars do not agree with
this theory.
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