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Most of the papers presented at the 15th Annual Conference of South Indian Numismatic Society, held at Kaiwara during 8-9 January 2005.
This volume, the 21st in the series entitled Studies in South Indian Coins contains twenty five papers on coins of various dynasties of South India, besides a section entitled news and views and an useful index to previous volumes, I to XX. The first paper deals with ancient coin names from Dharma-sastras and inscriptions and indicates that the change of dynasties resulted in the change in currency system. The next one describes two Roman coins from the ...
The 28 papers included in this Volume, twentieth in the series with the title Studies in South Indian Coins, cover a wide time span. The coins described are from the excavations, hoards, store rooms in the museums and individual collections.The coins are ascribed to: punch-marked variety, un-inscribed copper issues, Sadas, Satavahana, Roman, Kshatrapa, Ikshvaku, Kura Chutu, Vishnukundin, early Chera, Nolamba, medical Chola, Yadavas kalyana Kalachuris, later ...
This volume, the sixth in the series, contains description of recently discovered coins and new interpretation of known discoveries. "Illustrated with photographs, the volume will be of use to archaeologists, numismatists, historians, coin collectors and the general reader.
This volume provides details about recently discovered coins and new interpretations of known issues attributed to: Satavahanas, Maharathis, Rashtrakutas, Cholas, Seunas, Banas, Venad rulers, Vijayanagar rulers, Madurai Nayaks, Nizam of Hyderabad, Hyder Ali and subordinates of Arcot Nawab. Some of the coins mentioned above were found during the archaeological excavations. Besides these, there are papers on an inscribed gold ring with Tamil Brahmi legend, three ...
The seventeen papers included in the present volume represent some of the important and absorbing topics related to the Vijayanagara Empire, which dominated the history of Peninsular India for more than 300 years from 1336. In this anthology, scholars from abroad and India have written on various facets of Vijayanagara, in different parts of the empire. The varied topics dealt by these scholars are: land use and settlement in the Vijayanagara Metropolitan region; ...
This Volume brought out to honour Dr. R. Krishnamurthy whose contribution to Sangam Age numismatics is well known, contains nineteen essays. They deal with different aspects of numismatics and cultural history of India. The scholars who have contributed to this festschrift are: Peter Berghaus, David W. MacDowall, Reinhold Walburg, Barbara Mears, Baldev Raj, et.al., V.I. Subramoniam, Iravatham Mahadevan, K.V. Raman with Chitra Madhavan, Shobana Gokhale, A.V. ...
Based on strenuous field studies in inaccessible places, meticulous documentation, and analysis of data, the author presents in thsi monograph the metallurgical study of iron objects found in the some sites excavated. The study reveals "the maturity of ancient Indian metallurgist to obtain various categories of steel for different purposes" and expounds "on the basis of level of mineral transformation of iron artefacts, a hypothesis to relatively ...
This collection makes available to numismatists, archaeologists, historians and coin collectors twenty four papers by scholars who have specialised knowledge of coins. They help us to understand the rich and varied culture of South India from c. 300 B.C. to 1800 A.D. The authors discuss about : South Indian and foreign coins, coin moulds; coins with a portrait of a saint, a poet; coins with the name of a social reformer, a prime minister and other interesting ...
This volume, the seventeenth in the series, contains several papers on different aspects of South Indian Numismatics. Apart from papers on seals of Tamil Nadu and a seal from Sri Lanka in Matura Museum, there are papers on coins of pre-medieval period, such as the Andhra Janapada coins from Singavaram; Satavahana coins with interchanged symbols and symbols on an early Chera coin. Careful analysis of the contents of the hoards is always useful for numismatists. ...
This volume, eighteenth in the series, contains thirty papers. Some of the topics dealt by the authors are: the coinage of Andhra Pradesh; Pre-republican Roman coins from India in the British Museum; analyses of the weights of copper and lead coins found at Kotalingala; the changes in the alphabet 'ma' on silver portrait coins of Vasisthiputra Sivasri Pulumavi; an unique Sangam Age Silver Portrait Coin; Pallava coins found in Sri Lanka; dies used for ...
The papers included in this volume cover a variety  of topics and are broadly divided into three sections: Heritage and Museology, General Considerations of Conservation and Conservation of Specific Materials. They cover a wide spectrum which includes interesting and practical topics. This book would be useful to Conservators and Museologists who could find hints for preserving, restoring and displaying museum objects. Besides, the well informed layman may be ...
This Volume, nineteenth in the series, has 29 papers by well known numismatists from South India, besides the section entitled 'news and views'. These papers may be broadly classified into two categories: 1] Unknown coins, seals and rings; 2] re-examination or re-interpretation of known coins and their significance and metallurgical properties of some coins. To the first category, belongs: coins assignable to the Sangam Age Cheras from Banavasi; a gold ...