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Essays on Indian Antiquities Historic Numismatic and Palæographic To which are Added his Useful Tables Illustrative of Indian History Chronology Modern Coinages Weights Measures Etc.

1858

In 1823 the finance of India being considered to be in such a condition as to afford the prospect of a permanent surplus of income over expenditure the Government liberally appropriated the local duties levied at the principal cities of the Bengal Presidency to the improvement of the respective towns and appointed Committees of the public officers to apply the funds. [...] At the end of 1830 the mint of Benares was abolished and the whole coinage of the Bengal Presidency concentrated in the new building prepared for the purpose at the seat of government by Captain (since Major-General) W. Nairne Forbes of the Bengal Engineers. [...] In the year 1831 Major Herbert the projector and editor of the Gleanings ' accepted the appointment of Astronomer to the King of Oudh and transferred the conduct of his periodical to James Prinsep. [...] He opened communications with all the scientific men of India with the view of inducing them to use the pages of the Gleanings' for the dissemination of their researches and dicoveries; and the credit of the work and its circulation increased rapidly with the increasing value of the original communictions it contained. [...] The name of Antiochus with those of Ptolemy Magas and Antigonus was found recorded or referred to in the body of the inscription at Girnar ; and the reading of these was confirmed ten years after by the detection of the same names with the addition of that of a fifth monarch in another copy of these edicts expressed in a different character X11 MEMOIft OF THE AUTHOR.
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Pages
502
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146140
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Frontmatter
i-xvi James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
Memoir of the Author
i-xvi James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
I.—On the Ancient Roman Coins in the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society
1-6 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
II.—On the Greek Coins in the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society
7-ii James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
III.—Note on Lieutenant Burnes’ Collection of Ancient Coins
23-i James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
IV.—Bactrian and Indo-Scythic Coins—
45-72 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
V.—Discovery of an Ancient Town Near Behat in the Doáb of the Jamńa and Ganges
73-89 P.T. Cautley view
VI.—On the Coins and Relics Discovered by M. Le Chevalier Ventura General in the Service of Mahá Rájá Ranjít Singh in the Tope of Manikyála
90-117 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
VII.—On the Coins and Relics Discovered by General Ventura
118-137 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
VIII.—Further Information on the Topes of Manikyála
138-175 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
Art. IX.—Further Notes and Drawings of Bactrian and Indo-Scythic Coins
176-vii James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
X.—On the Connection of Various Ancient Hindú Coins with the Grecian or Indo-Scythic Series
195-vi James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
XI.—Notices of Ancient Hindu Coins
289-351 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
XII.—New Varieties of Bactrian Coins Engraved as Pl. XXVIII. from Masson’s Drawings and Other Sources
352-359 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
XIII.—New Varieties of the Mithraic or Indo-Scythic Series of Coins and Their Imitations
360-iv James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
XIV.—New Types of Bactrian and Indo-Scythic Coins Engraved as Pl. XXXII
397-401 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
XV.—Specimens of Hindu Coins Descended from the Parthian Type and of the Ancient Coins of Ceylon
402-424 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view
XVI.—The Legends of the Sauráshtra Group of Coins Decyphered
425-435 James Prinsep, Edward Thomas view

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