Return to Numismatics of India CatalogueThe Coinage of Ancient India: Indigenous Coins of Early India/S.R. Goyal. 1994, xvi, 240 p., 16 plates, ill., $30.
Contents: Preface. 1. Importance of numismatics for the study of ancient history. 2. Sources and historiography of ancient Indian numismatics. 3. General features of ancient Indian coinage. 4. Origin and antiquity of Indian coinage. 5. Punch-marked and other early Indian coins. 6. Local (including tribal and Naigama) coins. Appendices: 1. Historiography of the punch-marked coins. 2. Historiography of the tribal and local coins. Bibliography. Index.
[S.R. Goyal retired as Professor and Head, Department of History, J.N.V. University of Jodhpur. His books include A Religious History of Ancient India, A History of Indian Buddhism and Kautilya and Megasthenes.]