The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c4.17

c4.17

As we were thinking of sending the typescript of the work to the press in 1946, the discovery of the Bayana Hoard of Gupta Gold Coins was announced. I was myself entrusted with the classification of this hoard, and I at once realised that if its contents were not utilised, the proposed Corpus of Gupta Coins would be sadly defective. But as Col. H. H. Sri Brajendra Sawai Maharaja Brajendra Singh Ji of Bharatpur had planned the publication of the Catalogue of the Hoard, its contents could not be utilised before its publication. As I was myself entrusted with the publication of the Catalogue, I could utilise the interval for bringing the press copy of the present Corpus quite uptodate in the light of the new types and varieties, discovered in this hoard.