Ancient Indian Coins History
This video includes coins issued by various ancient indian kingdoms from 600 bce to 1300 ce from our personal collections. Sources i archaeological sources.
Among coins from the gupta dynasty 4th to 6th century ad found in 1851 were two whose origins were unclear.
Ancient indian coins history. But if you really want to you can also do it by losing yourself into the world of historical coins of india. Ancient indians were the earliest issuers of coins in the world along with the chinese and lydians from the middle east. Numismatics plays an important role in understanding ancient indian history says joe cribb former keeper of coins and medals at the british museum and renowned authority on ancient indian coins.
The mystery would remain for more than 160 years until a bu economist and numismatist set out to crack the puzzle. A centuries old coin may rewrite a key chapter of ancient india history. Sharma based on his analysis from kausambi dates them to pre punched marked coins pmc era between 855 and 815 bc on the bases of obtaining them from pre nbpw period while some date it to 500 bc and some date them to pre nbpw end of 7th century bc.
Surviving written texts that feature the ancient history of india were created as religious or literary texts. They say that a travel machine is a fictional concept. The most beautiful coins of the classical age are said to have been minted by samudragupta 335 376 ce who portrayed himself as both conqueror and musician.
Coins of india pakistan bangladesh nepal bhutan from ancient times to the present affordable early ancient silver coin this is one of the most affordable early ancient silver coins available. The history of coins extends from ancient times to the present and is related to economic history the history of minting technologies the history shown by the images on coins and the history of coin collecting coins are still widely used for monetary and other purposes. Coins were brought to india through the achaemenid empire as well as the successor kingdoms of alexander the great especially the indo greek kingdoms minted often bilingual coins in the 2nd century bce.
The first indian coins punch marked coins called puranas karshapanas or pana were minted in the 6th century bc by the mahajanapadas republic kingdoms of ancient india these included gandhara kuntala kuru panchala shakya surasena and saurashtra. History of ancient coins old indian coins. Cast copper coins along with punch marked coins are the earliest examples of coinage in india archaeologist g.
Poetry scientific literature literature literature in regional languages religious literature. Exploration excavation epigraphy numismatics monuments ii literary sources. It was struck from about 600bc to 327bc in the area of northern pakistan and north eastern afghanistan.
It is only in movies or some captivating novels where you will be able to imagine and experience the thrill of teleporting back in time. Previous years questions with solutions click here to get enrolled to access previous years solved papers 1.
