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Bopearachchi, Osmund and Wilfried Pieper. Ancient Indian Coins

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Bopearachchi, Osmund and Wilfried Pieper. Ancient Indian Coins
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Bopearachchi, Osmund and Wilfried Pieper, Ancient Indian Coins, Indicopleustoi Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean 2, Brepols, Turnhout, 1998, 289 pagse, 59 plates, softcover. This is actually two books in one. The first part covers ancient tribal punchmark coins and was written by Wilfried Pieper. It has a great historical commentary on the coinage from the 5th century BC until ca AD 300. The cataloge covers local punch-marked coins, Magadha-Maurya, Ujjain, Eran, Deccan, North Indian and South Indian dynasties. Each type is nicely described and accompanied by a line drawing, with photographic plates at the end. Part two, by Bopearachchi, covers Bactrians through early Kushan. It, too, has a nice historical commentary followed by a catalogue of Greek coins (Alexander and imitation Athenian owls), Bactrians, Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythians, Indo-Parthians, and early Kushans. The descriptions and plates are superb. An incredible book, ex James Farr Collection Library.