Understanding the Coins of Bengal: Ancient to Early Modern Period

This volume clarifies Bengal’s coinage across dynasties, highlighting their monetary use and illustrative legends.

This volume helps in understanding coins issued by different dynasties and kingdoms of Bengal from ancient to the early modern period. It provides illustrations of legends and in particular cases images or figures on both sides of coins. Though this work is not an attempt to document new information to the history of Bengal, a couple of new numismatic discoveries have been dis­c...