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Studies in South Indian Coins, Vol. XIX

Edited by D. Raja Reddy and Srinivasan Srinivasan, New Era Pub, 2009, 166 p, figs, $20.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)
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Studies in South Indian Coins, Vol. XIX/edited by D. Raja Reddy

Contents: 1. Technology of South Indian coinage/K. Ganesh. 2. An interesting old Sinhala seal/Iravatham Mahadevan. 3. A rare Roman Republican coin found in India/S. Suresh. 4. Who was the king Satavahana of the coins?/D. Raja Reddy. 5. Ancient Chera coins from Banavasi/R. Krishnamurthy. 6. Some observations on the Brahmi script of the Satavahana Silver Portrait Coins/D. Raja Reddy and Laxmikant B. Varma. 7. A new type of uninscribed cast copper coin/D. Sankaranarayanan. 8. Two unique coins of early Rashtrakuta King Mananka/Shashikant G. Dhopate. 9. Another Pallava coin with Legible legend/Mahameghah and R. Krishnamurthy. 10. A silver ring with early Nagari legend/Sankaran Raman and Iravatham Mahadevan. 11. A rare gold coin of Rajendra Chola - I/K. Ganesh, S. Rajavelu and M. Vijayakumar. 12. A new Hoysala Gadyana/A.V. Narasimha Murthy. 13. Influence of Hoysala Fanam on coinage of Kerala/P. Gopakumar. 14. Three Gold Panas of medieval Karnataka rulers/M. Girijapathy and L. Subramanya. 15. Three new type of God coins from Karnataka/M.R. Rajesh. 16. A gold Gadyana of Vira Nolamba/M. Nithyananda Pai. 17. A re-examination of Santara coins/M. Nithyananda Pai. 18. A reappraisal of Virakerala coins/Beena Sarasan. 19. A copper coin of Haduvalli Saluva Queen Chenna Byradevi/M. Girijapathy. 20. A ship - type gold coin of the Keladi Nayakas/R. Gopal and H.M. Siddagowdar. 21. A rare copper coin of Sri Krishnaraja Wodeyar - III of Mysore/M.S. Krishna Murthy. 22. Numismatic findings from excavations at Bekal Fort/M. Nambirajan, C. Kumaran and Sarojini Amma. 23. Coin of the Chennapatna Palegar Immadi Jagadevaraya/Sankaran Raman and Austin Joseph. 24. Coins of Kayamkulam rulers/Jee Francis Therattil. 25. Ancient trade centers of Kerala: evidence from numismatics/T. Satyamurthy. 26. A few aspects of Bi-lingual coins of Satavahanas and their contemporaries/P.V. Radhakrishnan. 27. Metallurgical study on select Chinese copper alloy coins/T. Satyamurthy, B. Sasisekaran, B. Raghunatha Rao and S. Sundararajan. 28. Karnataka coins - a bibliography/K. Ganesh. 29. New and views/D. Raja Reddy and Srinivasan Srinivasan. Book reviews.

"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: i. Unknown coins, seals and rings. ii. Re-examination of re-interpretation of known coins and their significance and metallurgical properties of some coins.

This book illustrated with a number of photographs, has an exhaustive bibliography on Karnataka coins and reviews of four books on numismatics." (jacket)

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