Dr. Shailen Bhandare,  "Not Just a Pretty Face" 2007
Channel: American Numismatic Society
Date: 2020-06-09

Please excuse the poor audio quality. This was recorded before we had the technology to connect an audio feed to the camera.
Dr. Bhandare gives a lecture on interpretations of "Alexander imagery" on coins from the Hellenic east.
Dr. Bhandare is Senior Assistant Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of St Cross College and a member of the faculty of Oriental Studies. His curatorial responsibilities cover the coinages of the Indian Subcontinent and the Far East, and Paper Money. Dr. Bhandare is a regular contributor to international conferences and journals; his research interests focus mainly on contextualizing and historicizing Indian coins, with wide ranging topics that include monetary history, art history, iconography and archaeology. Among his recent publications are “Place, Space and Money in Maharashtra, c. 1750–1850: Some Insights,” in Spaces and Places in Western India Formations and Delineations, edited by Bina Sengar and Laurie Hovell McMillin, Routledge India, 2019; and “The Numismatic Chronology of Mathura and its Bearing on Art,” in Indology's Pulse: Arts In Context: Essays Presented to Doris Meth Srinivasan in Admiration of her Scholarly Research, edited By Corinna Wessels-Mevissen and Gerd J.R. Mevissen, Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2019.