The present study is an attempt at reconstructing, with the help of coin hoards inventory published by the State Museum, Lucknow, the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of Mughal silver coinage circulating in the area of the present-day Uttar Pradesh in the period between 1560 and 1760. In the first part of the book the author outlines basic principles of his method and stresses the necessity to interpret incidences of particular types of coins in their ...
