Indian Coins

The object of this contribution is to give an account from the historical point of view of all the known coinages of ancient and mediaeval India, beginning with the earliest times and extending in each particular instance to a period determined by the following considerations. In the case of the states of Northern India generally, and those also of Southern India which were situated to the north of the river Kistna, our subject is naturally bounded by those well-defined limits which are, as a rule, afforded by the introduction of the Muhammadan form of coinage as a result of the progress of Muhammadan conquest between c. I ooo and x 31o A.D. In the extreme south, where Muhammadan supremacy was never absolute, and where, consequently, no similar break of continuity occurs in the coinage, our survey will not extend beyond the rise of the kingdom of Vijayanagar in 1326 A.D.

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INDIAN COINS

SOURCES OF INDIAN lllSTORY: COINS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. EARLIEST NATIVE COINAGE

III. EARLY FOREIGN COINS IN INDIA

IV. GRAECO-INDIAN COINS

V. SCYTHIC INVADERS OF INDIA

VI. COINS OF NATIVE INDIAN STATES FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO C. so A.D.

Vll. INDO-PARTHIAN COINS

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