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Were The Ancient Chinese The Only Civilization To Cast Their Round Coinage?

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As Opposed to being Hammer struck. I Don't think I've heard of any ancient civilization completely cast their coinage without hammer-striking it other than the Chinese.

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Would you count the cast Potins from the Celtic tribes?

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I vaguely recall that the early Roman Republican round coins were cast, mostly on the account of being too large to be easily struck.

That said, this only applied to copper coinage; they did strike the silver (and gold, when they made any). And, IIRC, they eventually switched to striking even the copper.
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The Sunga (Shunga) empire cast coins...

This is a 1/4 Karshapana 185-73 BC from the Shunga dynasty.North East India.
Obv - Elephant without rider.
Rev - Chaitya..Three arched hill with crescent above....A chaitya is a Buddhist shrine or prayer hall with a stupa at one end.
Composition: Copper. Weight: 1.70 gr. dia: 13.85 mm Mitchiner ACW-4366-4370
The coins are cast and minted in serial...see photo below..So most have a fusion rest...on my coin you can see this at the right of the elephants tail and the base of the chaiyta.
There are 2 types of this coin , one without rider and the other with rider..
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Republican Rome had cast Aes rude Aes Signatum and
round (approximately) Aes Grave.
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Well, strictly speaking, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Indonesia were other cultures that cast their coinage

I think Rome was the only other one to start out casting all of their coinage, since the aes rude, aes formatum, aes signatum, and aes grave mostly all predate their struck silver and gold by several decades to a century.

Olbia dolphins were cast, although I am not sure if they were the only coins at the time... and certainly aren't round!

The Sunga kingdom did cast most of their coinage, but IIRC they continued making punchmarked coins as well.

I'm not terribly familiar with Celtic potins, but I think their gold and silver were struck at any rate.

The earliest "coins" (marked ingots) of Sri Lanka I believe were cast, and the later massa coins produced locally were also cast (though gold and silver may have been struck).

As the Tang dynasty became the major financial power of the world, several kingdoms in central Asia abandoned struck coinage to make cash coins of a local flavor.
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I have examples of Celtic gold and silver.
Obviously stuck.
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The large bronze coinages of Rome and other Italian states such as some on Sicily, are cast; these coins and coin-like ingots are too big to be struck. At the time, these cast coins were the only coins being produced by Rome.
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