Ancient ‘Rising Sun’ Coin shows Vietnam contacts from Bangladesh

Archaeologists have analyzed more than 200 coins in Southeast Asia, the first thousand -year -old advertisement, which has revealed long -distance economic contacts throughout the region, which facilitates widespread trade and cultural interactions.

As far as the second century CE is concerned, the importance of Southeast Asian Polyes has been recorded in trade networks spread from east to China near Chinese history.

Archaeological evidence supports it, excavating in Southeast Asia with commercial goods such as Roman glass equipment, Indian jewelry, and Persian, Southwestern Asian, and Chinese ceramics.

Often there are silver coins associated with these searches, which usually portray the moving sun on one side and Srivasta (the initial symbol in Indian religious traditions) on the other.

Those Dieces: were made using templates, which pressed an empty metal disk to imprate a design from both sides.

These coins have been found from Bangladesh to Vietnam, which includes the entire Indian Southeast Asia, but, compared to Roman, Indian or Central Asian coins, are baseless.

Dr. Andrew Harris, author of the National University of Singapore, describes, “The distribution of the early Southeast Asian coins is not distributed so much that the growing sun/sravites shape.” “However, the coins have rarely been analyzed as an integrated antiquities, scholars often associate them with specific cultural historical groups that are associated with the boundaries of the modern national state.”

To correct the difference of this knowledge, a multi -institutional project team, led by researchers at Singapore’s National University, has gathered 245 accurately predicted coins in Southeast Asia to check them as part of the wider economic and cultural network as part of the wider economic and cultural network. Their results are published in the journal Antiques.

They found many links between the coins of the entire region, which shows that currency -based economies, and the political contacts that facilitate them, have changed over time.

Perhaps the most interesting thing is that a coin from Bangladesh and a coin from Vietnam has been developed using the same dye, which shows that they have been tied by the same person or humble, despite the distance from each other.

“This offers a widespread evidence of long -distance circulation,” says Dr. Harris.

The important thing is that this means that ancient coins played an important role in the formation of commercial and cultural links in Southeast Asia, just like currency economies like Rome, India and Central Asia.

“Understanding the early Southeast Asian trade networks of the dye study presented here, providing insights about key ports and settlements, further reviewing the role of silver in ancient trade, and expansion of currency -based economies in Southeast Asia of the mainland.

In addition, it will also help stop looting in the ongoing conflict such as the Myanmar Civil War and protect the region’s cultural heritage.

The early Southeast Asian coins are looted and traded illegally, hidden in melting or private collections. Applying diostations to Provenance Coins will help indicate counterfeiting, exposing immoral methods.

Dr. Harris said, “Diests will help to improve the fragility of coins from Myanmar, and will help our understanding of the use of historical coins and indicators while helping reduce the illegal accumulation of ancient coin in the region.”