Sangam: Numismatics and Cultural History : Essays in Honour of Dr. R.
Krishnamurthy/edited by R. Nagaswamy. Chennai, New Era Pub., 2006, x, 236
p., plates, $40 (pbk).
Sangam: Numismatics and Cultural History : Essays in Honour of Dr. R.
Krishnamurthy/edited by R. Nagaswamy. Chennai, New Era Pub., 2006, x, 236
p., plates, $40 (pbk).
Contents: I: Preface. 1. Strange mould links out the Tirukkoilur Hoard/Peter Berghaus. 2. The profit on exchanging Roman coins at Barygaza/David W. Mac Dowall. 3. Some punch-marked coins and an early Roman Aureus from India in the monetary historical collection of the Deutshce Bundesbank/Reinhold Walburg. 4. Material characterisation of ancient coins/Baldev Raj, C. Babu Rao and T. Jayakumar. 5. Coins of the Asmaka, Vidarbha, Chedi, Kalinga and Andhra Janapada/Prashant P. Kulkarni. 6. Tamil - Brahmi legend on Satavahana portrait coins/Iravatham Mahadevan. 7. Two similar Satavahana coins with different portraits/S.G. Dhopate. 8. Reconsideration of the origin and chronology of the Satavahanas/S.J. Mangalam. 9. A unique Nolamba coin/Sankaran Raman and Iravatham Mahadevan. 10. Copper and lead coins of Kayemkulam and Quilon/Barbara Mears. 11. Perspectives on the Palliagraharam Hoard of coins/R. Jawahar Babu. 12. Numismatics and Kannada literature/A.V. Narasimha Murthy. 13. Sources for collection of ancient Indian coins/D. Raja Reddy. 14. Recent scientific studies at Adichchanallur: a prehistoric mining site/D. Venkat Rao, B. Sasisekaran, T. Satyamurthy, R.K. Gartia, S. Badrinarayanan, S. Sundararajan, G.S. Rao and P.C. Rao. 15. Scholar - kings of ancient Tamilnadu/K.V. Raman and Chithra Madhavan. 16. Sri Lanka in early Indian inscriptions/Shobhana Gokhale. 17. Hindu and Buddhist architecture in Sri Lanka/S. Pathmanathan. 18. Madras Museum (Uruvuturu Grant) plates of Vijayaditya III/C.A. Padmanabha Sastry. 19. Chera country and Saiva Siddhanta/V.I. Subramoniam. II. Dr. R. Krishnamurthy: a profile. List of publications by R.K. Contributors. Images of R.K.
"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."
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