Shaikhan Dehri hoard

The hoard also contained short "punch-marked" bent bars, also found in the Kabul hoard, and attributed by Bopearachchi to the Paropamisadae. They are of Achaemenid weight standard, weighing either 1 siglos (5.5 g) or 2 sigloi (11 g), and measuring between 25 mm to 30 mm long. These are different from the punch-marked bent bars found in Taxila, which are significantly longer (35 and 55 mm).

The hoard also contained round "punch-marked" coins, the punch mark consisting in a geometrical motif made of a central circle with line around.

Virgin flans were also present in the hoard as well as silver ingots (about 400g each, corresponding to the manufacture by melting about 72 Achaemenid sigloi) used for the manufacture of coins. The composition of the ingots has been shown to be strictly identical to the composition of the local coinage (but different from the composition of standard royal Achaemenid sigloi). This shows that coins were being manufactured in Pushkalavati by the 5th century BCE, and that the metallurgical techniques involved in coin minting were readily available in the Indian Satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire at that time, well before the arrival of Alexander the Great.