List 205


Numismatic Literature
 
Item No. Photo Description Price
  Agrawal, Bhanu & Rai, Subas, Indian Punch-Marked Coins, Nagar, 1994, hc, 161 pages, 9 reduced-sized plates, with analysis of a new 221-coin hoard, and metallurgy-based challenge to the Gupta-Hardaker classification scheme. Not a substitute for Gupta-Hardaker. Color plates, but too small to see details.
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  Bartonitschek, Norbert, Das Geld von Kutch, Stolberg, 1995, hc, 122 pages with superb line drawings throughout. Covers coins, banknotes and stamps.
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  Bhattasali, N.K., Coins and Chronology of the Early Independent Sultans of Bengal, New Delhi, 1976, hc, 184 pages, 9 plates.
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  Brown, C.J., Catalogue of Coins in the Provincial Museum Lucknow: Coins of the Mughal Emperors, Oxford, 1920 (1986 reprint), hc, 575 pages, 22 plates, covers coins of Babur through Shah Alam II.
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  Codrington, H.W., Ceylon Coins and Currency, Colombo, 1924 (1975 reprint), 283 pages, 7 plates (poor quality), excellent academic work covering nearly 2000 years of Ceylonese coinage.
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  Draskovic, Frank & Rubenfeld, Stuart, World Crowns & Thalers, Krause Publications, Iola, 1984, sc, 460 pages, using Davenport numbers with photos and prices throughout.
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  Gupta, Parmeshwari Lal, The Amaravati Hoard of Silver Punch-Marked Coins, Hyderabad, 1963, sc, 76 pages, 31plates, largest museum catalog of punchmarked coins: 302 symbols in 235 types, cataloging an important hoard of 7,668 pieces, rare and out of print.
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  Haig, Wolseley, The Cambridge History of India: Volume IV, The Mughal Period, Cambridge, 1937 (1963 Indian reprint), hc, 693 pages, 58 plates,very useful historical overview with cronology.
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  Henderson, J.R., The Coins of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan, Madras, 1921 (original), sc, 123 pages, 9 plates, still a useful work with excellent quality plates.
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  Ilisch, Lutz, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen, volume 4a, Palästina, Tübingen 1993, 19 plates, sc, German text. The most important work to date on the Palestinian Islamic coins, especially for the copper, covering Umayyad through Ayyubid periods.
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  Kann, Eduard, Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins, Riverdale 1954 (1966 reprint), hc, 476pp, 224 plates, the longtime standard in-depth work on gold, silver, and nickel coins, dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
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  Korn, Lorenz, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen, volume 4c, Hamah, Tübingen 1998, 708 listed coins, 21 plates, sc, German text. Very important for this city in Syria, virtually a complete catalog of the Hamah mint from the Ayyubid & Mamluk periods, and during the brief Ilkhan occupation.
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  Kulkarni, Prashant, Coinage of the Bhonsla Rajas of Nagpur, Indian Coin Society, Nagpur, 1990, hc, 261 pates, with photos throughout, good historical background covering silver & copper coinage from circa 1730 to the Great Revolt of 1857, excellent chart of mint master marks.
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  Mayer, Tobias, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen, volume 15b, Nord- und Ostzentralasien (North and East-Central Asia), Tübingen 1998, 616 listed coins, sc, 30 superb (as usual) plates, German text. Very important, most useful single source for illustration of coins of this region arranged in mint order, Aqsu to Yangi Hisar.
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  Mitchiner, Michael, Oriental Coins and their Values: Non-Islamic States & Western Colonies AD 600-1979, London, 1979, 640 pages with 4785 coins illustrated, includes: 1) India from the fall of the Guptas through rise of Islam, 2) Colonial & modern India & Ceylon, 3) Nepal, Assam, Tripura, Arakan, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malay peninsula & Indonesia 600 AD to present, 4) (less useful) China, Japan, Annam & Korea from T'ang era China to present. Dynastic tables, historical background. Rendering in original script with translation for most coins. The India section alone is worth the price. Important listings of S.E. Asian odd & curious items. Mitchiner numbering system is widely used and that makes this an important reference. Especially important work for the Indian coins, list £125.
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  Schwarz, Florian, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen, volume 14d, Gazna/Kabul (Eastern Khorasan), Tübingen 1995, 39 superb plates (even better than the Palestine!), sc, over 1100 coins listed, German text. Most important publication yet for the mints from Bamyan to Mad'in including Ghazna & Kabul.
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  Schwarz, Florian, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen, volume 14c, Balkh und die Landschaften am oberen Oxus (Balkh and the Regions of the Up, Tübingen 2002, 180 pp, 77 plates, sc, 1500+ listed coins, German text. Useful work arranged by mints from Umayyad through Savafid & Mogul periods covering Andaraba to al-Yun.
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