The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c4.16

c4.16

We are first publishing the fourth Volume of the series on the Coinage of the Gupta Empire and this will naturally require some explanation. Our aim is to give, as far as possible, priority in publication to such volumes as are very urgently needed. Though the present volume is being published in 1957, its press copy was ready in 1946 and at that time Allan's Catalogue of Ancient Indian Coins in British Museum and Whitehead's Catalogue of Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Kushāna Coins in the Punjab Museum were available for study. The Catalogue of the Coins of the Gupta Dynasties in British Museum by Allan was on the other hand long out of print in 1946 and as the need of the Corpus on Gupta coins was then keenly felt, it was decided to give the first priority to the present volume, though it was the fourth in the series.