COINS

This book is a concise, straight-forward but remarkably detailed and readable survey of the whole sweep of the coinage of India from the beginning to the present day, and is a model of effective popularisation based on the highest scholarship. Parmeshwari Lal Gupta (1914-2001) born at Azamgarh (U.P.), obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Banaras Hindu University in 1960. He worked at the Bharat Kala Bhavan (Museum of Art and Archaeology), Banaras Hindu University and the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and retired as Curator from Patna Museum, Patna in 1972. In 1984, he joined, as Director, the Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies, Anjaneri, Nasik and worked there till 1992. He was an Honorary Member of the International Numismatic Commission, Honorary Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society, London, Asiatic Society of Bombay and also Honorary Fellow and Medallist, both, of the Numismatic Society of India as well as of the Royal Numismatic Society of London. Author of several works on Indian Numismatics, History and Archaeology in English and Hindi, he was an internationally acknowledged authority on Indian Numismatics, as well as a renowned scholar of Hindi literature and a freedom fighter.