[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957) › c19.179 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.179 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.179 - **Language:** English ### [c19.179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.179) The position of the Chapter on Rāmagupta is rather anomalous; I tentatively hold that there was such a king preceding Chandragupta II, and so the chapter on his coinage should have preceded the chapter on the coinage of the last-mantioned emperor. In the original manuscript, the copper coins of Kācha were merely an appendage to the chapter on the silver and copper coins of Chandragupta II, as will be seen from the Hindi edition of this book published in 1954. During my absence in America in 1954, owing to some misunderstanding, this section got separated into a separate chapter and was placed in the book after the coins of Chandragupta II. If Rāmagupta was the elder brother of Chandragupta II, this arrangement is unchronological and illogical; but on my return from America I found that it was too late to change it, as the preceding chapters had been printed off. - [Previous: c19.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.178) - [Next: c19.180](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.180) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.179) · Pramāṇa