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The present catalogue is a classified catalogue of the gold coins now
preserved in the Society's cabinet. Most of these are pagodas and fanams of
South India, presumably collected from Tipu Sultan's Treasury long ago.
There are also two Kushana gold-coins of the Third Century A.D.,
Indo-British Star Pagodas, Afghan-Durrani Coins, a few Ottoman gold coins.
Venetian Gold Ducats, of Malay, and a few "unattributed" pieces. The
variety is numismatically important.
This catalogue has been prepared by the Late Dr. Rita Sharma with
meticulous care, and competently edited by Dr. Sutapa Sinha. The
illustrated catalogue would certainly be useful to the students of
Numismatics and History, and would be appreciated by the general readers.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
1. Introduction
2. Descriptive catalogue of gold coins
2.1 Non-Islamic Indian coins
2.2 Islamic Indian coins
2.3 Foreign coins
2.4 Unattributed Gold pieces
Index
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