Pre-Study: What to Study
11 Subtopics · 74 ConceptsWhat Numismatics Reconstructs
Meaning of Numismatics and the Dual Character of a Coin
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCoins as Political and Economic Evidence (King-Lists, Debasement)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCoins as Religious, Artistic and Script Evidence
Importance 2/5 What to StudyAnatomy of a Coin and Methods of Minting
Obverse and Reverse of a Coin
Importance 1/5 What to StudyPunch-Marking, Die-Striking and Casting
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Toolkit of the Numismatist
Metrology: The Ratti and the Karshapana Standard
Importance 2/5 What to StudyHoard Analysis (Currency and Savings Hoards)
Importance 2/5 What to StudyDie-Study, Overstriking and Countermarking
Importance 1/5 What to StudyThe Textual and Institutional Frame
Early Literary References to Coined Money
Importance 3/5 What to StudyMauryan Mint Officials (Lakshanadhyaksha, Rupadarshaka)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCore Coin Terms from Karshapana to Mohur
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Before Coinage — the Pre-Monetary Economy
Barter and Commodity Money Before Coins
Importance 2/5 What to StudySecond Urbanisation and the Shift to Coinage
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPunch-Marked Coins — the Earliest Indian Coins
Identity, Names and Date of the Punch-Marked Coins
Importance 5/5 What to StudyShape, Technique, Metal and Weight of Punch-Marked Coins
Importance 4/5 What to StudySymbols on Punch-Marked Coins and Identification of the Issuer
Importance 4/5 What to StudyJanapada and Mauryan (Imperial) Series
Janapada Series and Mauryan Imperial Series Compared
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPottery Horizon and Major Hoards of Punch-Marked Coins
Importance 2/5 What to StudySignificance and the Origins Debate
Indigenous Origin of Indian Coinage
Importance 3/5 What to StudyHistorical Value of Punch-Marked Coins
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Indo-Greeks — the Portrait and Bilingual Revolution
Indo-Greek Coins and Royal Portraiture
Importance 5/5 What to StudyBilingual Legends and Reverse Deities of Indo-Greek Coins
Importance 4/5 What to StudyIndo-Scythians (Shakas)
Indo-Scythian Coins and Their Greek Inheritance (Maues, Azes)
Importance 2/5 What to StudyEra Reconstructed from Indo-Scythian Coins
Importance 1/5 What to StudyWestern Kshatrapas — the First Dated Coins
Western Kshatrapa Silver Drachma and Its Design
Importance 2/5 What to StudyDating on Western Kshatrapa Coins
Importance 4/5 What to StudyKushanas — Large-Scale Gold and a Pantheon of Deities
Kushana Gold Dinar and Its Main Issuers
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDeities on Kushana Coins and the Buddha on Kanishka's Coins
Importance 4/5 What to StudyKushana Coin Legends and the Silk Route
Importance 2/5 What to StudySatavahanas — the Lead-Coin Economy of the Deccan
Satavahana Lead, Potin and Copper Coinage
Importance 4/5 What to StudySymbols and Legends on Satavahana Coins (Ship Motif)
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The Gupta Gold Dinara — the Golden Age of Indian Numismatics
Gupta Denominations and the Golden Age of Coin Art
Importance 4/5 What to StudyGupta Gold Standard and Coin Legends
Importance 2/5 What to StudyDynastic Types — a Gallery of Kingship
King-and-Queen Type of Chandragupta I
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCoin Types of Samudragupta (Lyrist, Ashvamedha)
Importance 5/5 What to StudyCoin Types of Chandragupta II and Gupta Silver
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCoins of Kumaragupta I and Skandagupta
Importance 2/5 What to StudyGupta Reverse Deities and Hoards (Bayana)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Vakatakas — a Contemporary Deccan Power
Metals of Vakataka Coinage
Importance 1/5 What to StudyVakatakas as Gupta Contemporaries
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Sangam Tamilakam — Coins of the Three Crowned Kings
Local Coinage of Sangam Tamilakam
Importance 2/5 What to StudyDynastic Emblems of the Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas
Importance 4/5 What to StudyIndo-Roman Coinage — the Gold of the Southern Trade
Roman Gold and Silver Coins in South India
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRoman Coin Hoard Sites in South India
Importance 3/5 What to StudySlashed and Countermarked Roman Coins
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The Post-Gupta Decline and the "Coinless Economy" Debate
Post-Gupta Decline and Harsha's Coinage
Importance 2/5 What to StudyR.S. Sharma's Feudalism Thesis on Coinage
Importance 3/5 What to StudyJohn S. Deyell's Continuity Critique (Living Without Silver)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyDeccan Regional Coinages
Chalukya Gadyana and Varaha
Importance 2/5 What to StudyRashtrakuta Dramma and Gadyana
Importance 1/5 What to StudySouth Indian Dynastic Coinages
Coins of the Pallavas, Pandyas and Cheras
Importance 2/5 What to StudyChola Coinage (Kasu, Pon, Kalanju) and the Combined Emblem
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNorth Indian and Hill Coinages
Rajput Dramma, Gadhaiya Paisa and the Bull-and-Horseman Type
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCoinage of the Kashmir Kingdoms
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A New Monetary Order — Tanka and Jital
Iltutmish's Tanka and Jital
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCalligraphic Legends on Sultanate Coins
Importance 3/5 What to StudyReforms Under Later Sultans
Alauddin Khalji's Coin Titles
Importance 2/5 What to StudyMuhammad bin Tughlaq's Gold Dinar and Adli
Importance 3/5 What to StudyMuhammad bin Tughlaq's Token Currency and Its Failure
Importance 5/5 What to StudyFiroz Shah Tughlaq's Small Denominations
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Vijayanagara Gold Coins (Varaha, Pratapa, Fanam)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyEmblem, Deities and Legends on Vijayanagara Coins
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCoinage of the Bahmanis and the Deccan Sultanates
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Sher Shah Suri — the Birth of the Rupee
Sher Shah's Tri-Metallic System
Importance 5/5 What to StudyThe Rupiya's Legacy and Mughal Adoption
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Mughal Tri-Metallic System
Core Mughal Coins and Minor Terms (Nisar, Shahrukhi)
Importance 2/5 What to StudyAkbar's Coinage (Ilahi, Jalali, Ram-Siya)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyJahangir's Coinage
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCoinage of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb
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Maratha Coinage (Shivrai, Hon)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Sikh Nanakshahi Rupee
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Chronological Sequence of Indian Coins (Karshapana to Nanakshahi Rupee)
Importance 2/5 What to StudySignature Coins of Fourteen Periods and Dynasties (Mahajanapada to Sikh Empire)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFirsts and Superlatives in Indian Coinage
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