Standard Catalogue of Coins of British India is a comprehensive catalogue of currency coins of Greater India from 1835 to 1947. The book catalogues silver and baser metal coins of British rulers from William IV to George VI. All the coins are chronologically catalogued from 1 Rupee to lower denominations. Each denomination is profusely illustrated with mint identifiers; obverse and reverse types, and is followed by the Catalogue listing with details like year, metal, initials, mint, mint marks, diameter, obverse and reverse varieties, mintage and remarks. The book catalogues as many as 1,458 coins with about 1,000 illustrations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajgor .
Dr. Rajgor received his Master's Degree in Indian History, Culture and Archaeology with a Post-graduate Diploma in Linguistics from the M.S. University of Baroda. He holds doctorate in Numismatics from the University of Bombay. He has edited the Khabarnama and the ICS newsletter from 1987-94. His published works include Standard Catalogue of Sultanate Coins of India (1991); and Studies in the Coinage of the Western Kshtrapas (with Amiteshwar Jha in 1994). Numismatic Heritage of Early Historic Gujarat; and Janapada Coins of Buddist India. He is currently completing linguistic analysis of Brahmi script. He has participated in various international and national seminars and conferences and has contributed forty-five research papers to different journals and books He has also been awarded the Lowick Memorial Grant of the Royal Numismatic Society, U.K. in 1991; and the Indological Fellowship of the Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1994.
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