The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c4.18

c4.18

Owing to various difficulties, the Catalogue of the Gupta Gold Coins in the Bayana Hoard could not be published before the end of 1954. The present work went to the press in 1953, but partly owing to the difficulties of the press and partly owing to my engagements in America in 1954 and in Germany in 1957 the work of printing lingered on for an abnormally long time and the Corpus could be published only towards the end of 1957. In the meanwhile, the Rāṣṭrabhāṣā Pariṣad of the Bihar Government, which was keen to publish this book first in Hindi, brought out its Hindi edition in 1954. The Hindi work however does not include the two appendices which deal with the Imitations of Gupta Coinage and Addenda and Corrigenda These were later decided to be added to the present work.