Catalogue Of The Gupta Gold Coins In The Bayana Hoard

About the book:-It is common knowledge that India is a land of hoary tradition, with a glory and spiritual culture, all her own. Treasures deep lie buried in the far past, we come by finds of great historical interest and importance. It was his good fortune to have been able to retrieve a treasure of such historical import, the finding of which was under peculiar circumstances, which are set out in the opening pages of this work. They are found to belong to the days of the great Guptas that ruled our land some sixteen centuries ago with signal success.This book will be found to be an interesting one from several points of view. It is the Catalogue of the biggest hoard of ancient Indian gold coins that was ever discovered and recovered in the history of Indian Archaeology. It gives an accurate and full description of the 1821 coins of the hoard which were recovered, recording carefully the size and weight of each. As many as 449 coins of the hoard have been illustrated in beautiful plates prepared by the collotype process. The symbol on each coin is illustrated along with its description by special types prepared for the purpose.In the case of the rather rare types, care has been taken to illustrate every coin in the hoard, lest important details should be lost to the students of numismatics. Thus all the coins of Chandragupta I (10 in number), Kacha (16 in number) and Skandagupta (1 in number) have been illustrated.The book contains 68 beautiful plates to delineate the text properly and makes it worth readable in the context of the history. About the Author:-Anant Sadashiv Altekar (1898 – 1960 was a historian, archaeologist, and numismatist from Maharashtra, India. He was the Manindra Chandra Nandy's Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and later the director of the Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute and University Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Patna University, both in Patna, India. In 1936, at the invitation of the local government, he conducted an archaeological and historical survey of Kotah, and made many discoveries there, including the excavation of many old forts and temples; the most important of his discoveries from this expedition were three stone pillars dated to the year 295 of the Vikrama Era (AD 238), the second-oldest Vikrama inscriptions known. The Title 'Catalogue Of The Gupta Gold Coins In The Bayana Hoard written/authored/edited by Anant Sadashiv Altekar', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121220842 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 616 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-