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Oriental Coins and their values V3 Non-Islamic States & Western colonies: AD 600- 1979

Mitchiner, Michael

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The present volume completes a three-volume survey of Oriental coinage. The coin series considered here were issued in lands situated from India in the west to Korea and New Guinea in the east and from the Himalayas and Mongolia in the north to Ceylon and Indonesia in the south. Coinage issued within this area during the Ancient Period has already been covered in the second volume of this series, while the issues of the Islamic Sultanates in India were included in the first volume. The many coin series considered in this volume fall naturally into four sections of about equal length, with between 900 and 1,400 coins catalogued in each section. In the first section are grouped coin series struck for the numerous Indian States that held sway in Northern India from the fall of the Gupta Empire in the fifth century AD until the consolidation of Islamic control in the thirteenth century. Thefirst section continues with coinage struck for the multiplicity of non-Islamic principalitites that controlled the Deccan and Peninsular India from the beginning of the Medieval Period until the last local coinage was struck during the 1940’s. Approximately 1,400 coins are catalogued in this section which embraces such well-known names as those of the Maukharis, Vardhanas, Palas, Chahamanas, Kalachuris, Kadambas, Chalukyas, Hoysalas, Pandyas, Cholas and the kings of Ceylon, of Vijayanagar and of Mysore. But many less familiar names include the Vaghelas, Silaharas, Kayasthas, Gangas and the many families of Nayakas. The coins struck for these various dynasts are considered in their historical context and in relation to previously published information: but many of the issuesdescribed in this book have not been previously published and a large number of others are new to western literature. Coinage struck in India, Pakistan and Ceylon for the trading enclaves established by European powers from the early sixteenth century onwards provides the material for the second section of the book. The history and coinage of the Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, French and English settlements lead on to a consideration of the coin series struck in British India and Ceylon. This section ends with a survey of coinage struck after these regions more recently acquired independence and includes, last but not least, Bangladesh. Moving further north and also east, the countries considered in the third section of this book stretch in an arc from Himalayan states such as Nepal and Assam, through Tripura and Arakan, to embrace the South-east Asian kingdoms that have ruled Burma, Thailand and Cambodia since an early time; a time before the Thai-Burman peoples had arrived on the scene. Although the majority of coins issues within this arc from Nepal to Arakan have been published previously, a very substantial proportion of specimens belonging to more easterly series issued in the Burma-Thailand-Cambodia region are either newly published or else they are placed in a new historical context which gives much more meaning to the environment in which such coinage often of unusual shape, evolved during a fairly substantial time span. Progressing from the more modern machine-struck coinage - and also some tokens - of Burma, Thailand and Cambodia, the book moves on to a discussion of coinage struck by the early Hindu kingdoms in the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago. The coinage of this region, which stretches south-easwards as far as New Guinea, is followed through the period of the European colonising powers down to the independent states of the present day. The fourth and final section of the book deals with the Far East. Chinese coinage is considered in its historical context from the foundation of the T’ang dynasty, in the early seventh century AD, down to the present time. A catalogue of Chinese cash, and of their machine struck successors, including examples of the local coinage struck in Turkestan, is followed by a selection of silver sycee. Other local coin series include those struck in Portuguese, British, German, Japanese and local Communist enclaves, together with issues struck in such successor states as Mongolia and Taiwan. The various coin series, and some amulets, cast and struck in the adjacent countries of Korea to the north-east and Annam (Vietnam, French Indo-China) to the south-west lead on to related series issued in the island realm of Japan.

Category: Islamic

Volume: 3

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Year Published: 1979

Pages: 640 pages, over 4,750 coins illustrated

Binding: Hardback

Size: 8vo 8-11 inches tall

Language: English

Availability: In Print

Average Price: £125 / $200

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