The following are a select list of books on Numismatics published in India. We have books on India, Nepal and Sri Lanka's numismatics. If you are looking for a particular title which is not on this list, please e-mail us at vedams@vedamsbooks.com the details of the title and we shall procure it for you. Please click on Details at the end of each title to see the complete table of contents and excerpts from the jacket and preface. All books are in hardcover unless specified pbk (for paper back edition)

 

Updated February, 2008

Numismatic Digest, Vol. 31 (2007)/edited by Amiteshwar Jha and Sanjay Garg. Maharashtra, IIRNS Pub., 2007, iv, 256 p., $20 (pbk) (Vol. 31). ISBN 81-86786-26-0.  Details No. 54862

The Age of the Satavahanas/edited by Ajay Mitra Shastri. 1999, 2 Volumes, 524 p., 45 plates, $129 (set). ISBN 81-7305-159-3. Details No. 14085

Ancient Indian Coinage : A Systematic Study of Money Economy from Janapada Period of Early Medieval Period (600 BC to AD 1200)/Rekha Jain. 1995, 247 p., plates, $23. Details  No. 10646

Ancient Indian Numismatics : A Historiographical Study/Shankar Goyal. 1998, xviii, 226, $42. Details No. 13896

The Apracharajas : A History Based on Coins and Inscriptions/Prashant Srivastava. Delhi, Agam Kala Prakashan, 2007, x, 140 p., plates, $28. ISBN 81-7320-074-2.  Details No. 52575

Ariana Antiqua : A Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins of Afghanistan with a Memoir on the Buildings Called Topes by C. Masson/H.H. Wilson. Reprint. First published : London, 1841. 1997, xvi, 452 p., 22 plates, $63. Details No. 12919

Art-Motifs on Ancient Indian Coins/Prashant Srivastava. New Delhi, Harman, 2004, ix, 81 p., $22. ISBN 81-86622-68-3.  Details No. 37534

Aspects of Ancient Indian Numismatics/Prashant Srivastava. 1996, xxxix, 392 p., 16 plates, $50. Details No. 10648

Ceylon Coins and Currency/Codrington. Reprint. 1994, xiv, 290 p., 7 plates, $55. Details No. 16624

Chats on Old Coins/Fred W. Burgess. Reprint. First published in London, 1913. New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2000, 393 p., plates, $44. ISBN 81-208-1447-X. Details No. 16882

The Coinage of Ancient India/S.R. Goyal. 1995, xxxiv, 502 p., plates, $59. Details No. 10601

The Coinage of Ancient India: Indigenous Coins of Early India/S.R. Goyal. 1994, xvi, 240 p., 16 plates, ill., $30.  Details No. 8779

Coin Splendour : A Journey into the Past/Prasanna Rao Bandela. New Delhi, Abhinav Pub., 2003, 118 p., figs., $61. ISBN 81-7017-427-9. Details No. 33494

The Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire/James Atkins. Reprint. New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2007, xiv, 402 p., $28. ISBN 81-2062-031-3.  Details No. 50304

Coins in India : Power and Communication/edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray. Mumbai, Marg, 2006, 116 p., ills., $85. ISBN 81-85026-73-4.  Details No. 45304

Coins of Ahom Kingdom/Anup Mitra. Calcutta, Mahua Mitra, 2001, 132 p., $33. Details No. 26267

Coins of Ancient India/Kiran Kumar Thaplyal and Prashant Srivastava. 1998, 254 p., illustrations, $30.  Details No. 14182

Coins of India/C.J. Brown. Reprint of 1922 edition. 1988, 120 p., 12 plates, $15. Details No 14561

The Coins of the Indian Sultanates : Covering the Area of Present Day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh/Stan Goron and J.P. Goenka. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2001, xxxi, 532 p., 3013 Coin illustrations, $121. ISBN 81-215-1010-4. Details No. 21272

The Coins of the Sikhs/Hans Herrli. Reprint. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2004, xii, 301 p., maps, $55. ISBN 81-215-1132-1.  Details No. 36140 

Coins of South India/Walter Elliot. Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2005, xi, 175 p., map, figs., plates, $80. ISBN 81-8090-084-3.  Details No. 41315

Coins and Culture : An Archaeological Approach/Sunil C. Ray. 1996, xiii, 447 p., plates, maps, $46. Details No. 11168

Coins and Currency Systems of Post-Gupta Bengal (c. AD 550-700)/B.N. Mukherjee. 1993, x, 73 p., 8 plates, $13. Details No. 8243

The Currencies of the Hindu States of Rajputana/William Wilfrid Webb. Reprint. New Delhi, AES, 2003, xxi, 134 p., $17. ISBN 81-206-1702-9.   Details No. 30846

A Dictionary of Numismatics Names/Albert R. Frey. Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2001, xv, 312 p.,  $28. ISBN 81-86050-81-7. Details No. 21615

The Dynastic Coins of Ancient India/S.R. Goyal. 1995, xix, 265 p., 20 plates, $36. Details No. 9795

Early Indian Coins from Sugh/Devendra Handa. New Delhi, Sundeep Prakashan, 2006, xiii, 157 p., tables, ills., $55. ISBN 81-7574-161-9.  Details No. 42984

Foreign Coins Found in the Indian Subcontinent : 8 - 10 January, 1995, 4 International Colloquium/edited by David W. MacDowall and Amiteshwar Jha. Mumbai, IIRNS, 2004, 132 p., tables, figs., $39 (pbk)  ISBN 81-86786-17-1.  Details No. 35068

Gupta Numismatic Art--An Artistic and Iconographic Study/Chhanda Mukherjee. 1991, xii, 188 p., maps, plates, $33. Details No. 6000

History and Heritage : In Honour of Prof. Kiran Kumar Thaplyal/edited by S.P. Shukla, R.S. Bisht, M.P. Joshi and Prashant Srivastava. New Delhi, Agam Kala Prakashan, 2007, 3 Vols., 768 p., tables, plates, $240 (set). ISBN 81-7320-067-X. Details No. 50053

A History of the Dimasa-Kacharis : As Seen Through Coinage/N.G. Rhodes and S.K. Bose. Kolkata, Mira Bose, 2006, viii, 140 p., figs., $20. ISBN 81-901867-6-0.  Details No. 49037

History of the Traikutakas : Based on Coins and Inscriptions/Dilip Rajgor. 1998, xiii, 80 p., viii plates,  $18. Details No. 12766

Indian Coin Heritage/A.V. Narasimha Murthy. Mumbai, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2004, viii, 179 p., $11 (pbk). Details No. 40676

The Indian Gold : An Introduction to the Cabinet of Gold Coins in the Indian Museum/by B.N. Mukherjee with the assistance of T.N. Raychaudhuri. 1990, 100 p., (21) p. of plates, col. ill., $13. Details No. 6736

The Indian Coinage Tradition : Origins, Continuity and Change/Joe Cribb. Maharashtra, IIRNS Pub., 2005, iii, 72 p., $15 (pbk). ISBN 81-86786-22-8.  Details No. 41427

Indian Numismatics : From the Earliest Times to the Rise of the Imperial Guptas/S.K. Chakrabortty. New Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2004, xiii, 174 p., 20 plates, $47. ISBN 81-8090-048-7.  Details No. 39813

Indian Numismatics, History, Art and Culture : Essays in Honour of Dr. P.L. Gupta/edited by D.W. Macdowall, Savita Sharma and Sanjay Garg. 1992, 2 vols., lxxviii, 350 p., figures, plates, $132 (set). Details No. 6913

Indian Punch-Marked Coins/Bhanu Agrawal and Subhas Rai. 1994, 178 p., plates, $30. Details No. 8660

An Introduction to Gupta Numismatics/S.R. Goyal. 1994, xviii, 135 p., 20 plates, $30. Details No. 9712

Kosala State Region C.600-470 BC : Silver Punchmarked Coinage/Paul Murphy. Mumbai, IIRNS Publications, 2001, xi, 96 p., $25. ISBN 81-86786-10-4. Details No. 22733

Kusana Coins and History/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta and Sarojini Kulashreshtha. Reprint. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2004, 209 p., 31 figs., $22. ISBN 81-246-0017-1.  Details No. 37663

Kushana Silver Coinage/B.N. Mukherjee. Reprint. Kolkata, Indian Museum, 2004, 110 p., plates, $25. Details No. 39291

Lectures on Ancient Indian Numismatics/D.R. Bhandarkar. Reprint. First published 1939. Delhi, 1989, 242 p., $17. Details No. 16622

Medieval Indian Coins : Essays on the Coins of Bengal Sultans/G.S. Farid. Mumbai, IIRNS Pub., 2002, x, 166 p., $20 (pbk) ISBN 81-86786-13-9.   Details No. 29849

Medieval Indian Coinages : A Historical and Economic Perspective : February 17th-19th, 2001 : 5th International Colloquium/edited by Amiteshwar Jha. Mumbai, IIRNS Publications, 2001, 275 p., $39. ISBN 81-86786-09-0. Details No. 22732 

Modern Coin Magic/J.B. Bobo. New Delhi, Sterling, 2004, xviii, 358 p., figs., $15 (pbk). ISBN 1-84557-069-3.  Details No. 39734

Monetary History of Mughal India as Reflected in Silver Coin Hoards/Jaroslav Strnad. New Delhi, Harman, 2001, xi, 201 p., $44. ISBN 81-86622-42-X. Details No. 21636

Money of the People : A Survey of Some Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Tokens of India/Roma Niyogi. Reprint. Kolkata, Indian Museum, 2006, xiv, 110 p., plates, $25.   Details No. 50542

Mudranusilana : Articles of the Seminar on Coins of Bengal and North-East India/edited by Samaresh Bandyopadhyay. Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2006, xii, 128 p., photos, figs., $55.  Details No. 49476

Numismatic Art of India/B.N. Mukherjee. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 2007, 2 Vols., 562 p., ills., $120 (set). ISBN 81-215-1189-5.  Details No. 53082

Numismatic Digest : Volumes 29-30 (2005-2006) (Bound in One)/edited by Amiteshwar Jha and Sanjay Garg. Nasik, IIRNs Pub., 2006, 196 p., tables, figs., $20 (pbk). ISBN 81-86786-24-4. Details No. 45130  

Numismatic Panorama : Essays in the Memory of Late Shri S.M. Shukla/edited by K.K. Maheshwari and Biswajeet Rath. 1996, xx, 364 p., illustrations, $72. Details No. 11545

Numismatic Researches : Critical Studies from Excavated Context/I.K. Sarma. Delhi, Book India, 2000, 203 p., plates, map & fig., $61. ISBN 81-85638-13-6.Details No. 18430

Numismatic Studies (Volume 4)/Chief editor : Ajay Mitra Shastri. 1996, x, 129 p., plates, $26 (Vol. IV). Details No. 11378

Numismatic Studies (Volume 6)/edited by Manmohan Kumar. New Delhi, Harman, 2001, viii, 236 p., $39 (Vol. VI). ISBN 81-86622-45-4. Details No. 22835

Numismatic Studies, Vol. 7/edited by Manmohan Kumar. New Delhi, Harman, 2005, viii, 168 p., plates, $44. ISBN 81-86622-77-2.  Details No. 45980

Oriental Numismatic Studies, Volume 1/edited by Devendra Handa. 1996, 210 p., 12 plates, $32 (Vol. I). Details No. 11232

Oriental Numismatic Studies, Volume 2/edited by Devendra Handa. 1999, viii, 168 p., 17 plates, $45 (Vol. II).  ISBN 81-7574-050-7. Details No. 14427

Origin, Evolution and Circulation of Foreign Coins in the Indian Ocean : Proceedings of the Numismatic Workshop 'Origin and Evolution of Coins" and the International Seminar "Circulation of Foreign Coins in Sri Lanka and Ancient Sea Routes in the Indian Ocean" Colombo, 8-10 September 1994/edited by Osmund Bopearachchi and D.P.M. Weerakhody. 1998, xv, 272 p., plates, $53. Details No. 13399

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). Details No. 45088

Sassanian Coins/W.H. Valentine. Reprint. 1993, 118 p., ill., $22. Details No. 8567

Saurashtra (c. 450-50 BC); Surasena (c. 500-350 BC) : Silver Punchmarked Coinage/P. Anne van't Haaff. Maharashtra, Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies, 2004, viii, 120 p., $39 (pbk). ISBN 81-86786-18-X.  Details No. 37526

Sri Puspanjali : Recent Researches in Prehistory, Protohistory, Art, Architecture, Numismatics, Iconography and Epigraphy/edited by K.V. Ramesh, S. Subramonia Iyer, M.J. Sharma, S. Swaminathan and C.S. Vasudevan. Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2004, 2 vols., xxvi, 469 p., plates, figs., $198 (set). ISBN 81-8090-056-8. Details No. 38826

Sikh Coinage : Symbol of Sikh Sovereignty/Surinder Singh. New Delhi, Manohar Pub., 2004, 283 p., ills., $55.  ISBN 81-7304-533-X.  Details No. 37792

Studies in South Indian Coins, Volume VI/edited by A.V. Narasimha Murthy. 1996, 140 p., 51 plates, $13. Details No. 11515

Studies in South Indian Coins, Volume XIII/edited by I.K. Sarma and S. Srinivasan. Chennai, New Era Publications, 2003, 140 p.,  $13 (Vol. XIII).  Details No. 32144

Studies in South Indian Coins, Vol. XVII/edited by D. Raja Reddy and Srinivasan Srinivasan. Chennai, New Era Pub., 2007, 128 p., tables, figs., $15 (Vol. XVII). Details No. 49740  

A Study of Tibetan Paper Money : With a Critical Bibliography/Wolfgang Bertsch. Himachal Pradesh, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1997, x, 93 p., plates, $19 (pbk). ISBN 81-86470-16-6.   Details No. 29313

Tribal Coins of Ancient India/Devendra Handa. New Delhi, Aryan Books International, 2007, xxxii, 290 p., tables, ills., $105. ISBN 81-7305-317-0.  Details No. 47960

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