num_pages: 289
description: This important contribution about ancient coins in India has been written jointly by Osmund Bopearachchi and Wilfried Pieper. It is an impressive volume of 289 pages with 59 plates which presents a private collection of ancient coins patiently gathered trough the years. In Part one W.Pieper develops a historical commentary about the earliest coinages of India the imperial period of late Magadha and Maurya rule ( ca late IVth-early IInd centuries B.C.) Ujjain and Eran the Satavahanas (ca Ist century B.C.-early IInd century A.D.) and tribal republics and kingdoms in post-Mauryan northern India ( ca 200 B.C-ca 300 A.D.). This commentary is followed by a detailed catalogue with very precise drawings of more than 600 coins and punch-marked coins. Part two by o. Bopearachhi is organized on the same a historical commentary about foreign powers in ancient northern India from the Bactrian Greeks untill the time of the early Kushans followed by a precise catalogue presenting Greek Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Indo-Scythian Indo-Parthian and early Kushan coins (in fact more than 300 specimens). The commentary intends to give a general overview of the coins concerned and of their historical context with a more extensive discussion of the series best represented in the collection. For the indigenous Indian coins this is specially true for the coinages of Ujjain Eran Taxila and Kausambi many of which are new and published here for the first time.
language: English
title: Ancient Indian Coins
publisher: Brepols Publishers