The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations
Gold, silver and copper Gupta coins by reign and type, with legends, metrology, hoards (Bayana) and historical inferences, plus plates.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. S. Altekar
- Extent
- 3,166 passages, 113,292 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Varanasi: Numismatic Society of India 1957 (Corpus of Indian Coins IV); scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. S. Altekar †1960)
Contents
- c1 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire — 10 parts
- c2 Contents — 18 parts
- c3 Plates — 49 parts
- c4 Preface — 34 parts
- c5 Abbreviations and Transliteration — 2 parts
- c6 Chapter I: A Brief Outline of the History of the Imperial Gupta Dynasty — 40 parts
- c7 Chapter II: General Introduction to the Gupta Coinage — 18 parts
- c8 Chapter III: The Coinage of Chandragupta I — 28 parts
- c9 Chapter IV. Coinage of Samudragupta — 11 parts
- c10 Chapter V: Coinage of Kācha — 73 parts
- c11 Chapter VI: Coinage of Chandragupta II — 15 parts
- c12 Chapter VII: The Coinage of Rāmagupta — 14 parts
- c13 Chapter VIII: Gold Coinage of Kumāragupta I — 45 parts
- c14 Chapter IX: Silver & Copper Coinage of Kumāragupta I — 4 parts
- c15 Chapter X: The Coinage of Skandagupta — 2 parts
- c16 Chapter XI: Coinage of the Successors of Skandagupta — 9 parts
- c17 Chapter XII: Symbols, Metrology, Palæogrphy and Hoards — 5 parts
- c18 Appendix I: Imitations of the Gupta Coinage — 12 parts
- c19 Appendix II: Addenda and Corrigenda — 197 parts
- c20 Appendix III: Genealogical and Chronological Table of Gupta Kings — 14 parts
- c21 Appendix IV: Index to Types and Motifs — 41 parts
- c22 Appendix V: General Index — 109 parts
- c23 Appendix VI: Conversion of Inches and Grains into Centimetres and Grammes — 5 parts
- c24 Appendix VII: Bibliography — 44 parts
- c25 Errata — 440 parts