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Fresh analysis of over 200 ancient silver coins from first millennium AD Southeast Asia has revealed extensive economic connections spanning from Bangladesh to Vietnam. These remarkable coins, featuring distinctive rising sun and Srivatsa motifs, provide compelling evidence that Southeast Asia’s currency-based economies were just as sophisticated as those of contemporary civilizations in Rome, India, and Central Asia.
The research, led by Dr. Andrew Harris from the National University of Singapore and published in the journal Antiquity, represents the first comprehensive study to examine these coins as an integrated archaeological dataset rather than isolated regional artifacts. The findings reveal that these silver coins, commonly depicting a rising sun on one side and the Srivatsa – an early symbol in Indian religious traditions – on the other, facilitated extensive long-distance trade and cultural exchange across the entire region of Indianized Southeast Asia.
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