Numismatic Digest : Vol. 40 (2016)

Contents: 1. Making rocks from sand-an overview of some current research in Indian punchmarked coinage/Terry Hardaker. 2. The deity with hairstyle and the first identification of the serpent Goddess Manasa Devi on ancient Indian coins/Wilfried Pieper. 3. Earliest gold coins of India and Baktria/Prashant P. Kulkarni. 4. Sangam age Pandya Coin with a different type of temple symbol along with a crocodile symbol/Dr. R. Krishnamurthy. 5. Some notes on coins of Western Kshatrapas/Alex Fishman. 6. Symbol of syncretism: a unique trident type coin of Kumaragupta I/Suken Shah. 7. New evidence on the date of Chandragupta III/Pankaj Tandon. 8. Fresh light on the Aulikaras/Devendra Handa. 9. Early medieval Kashmir coinage-a new hoard and an Anomaly/Joe Cribb. 10. Harsha’s coinage: hidden in plain sight?/John S. Deyell. 11. Epigraphs from Ambejogai Associated Numismatic discoveries/Amol Bankar. 12. On some recent monetary finds in Vyadhapura Angkor Borei (Kingdom of Cambodia) and related Issues/Guillaume Epinal and Suchandra Ghosh. 13. Coinage and trade in the Al Hasa Oasis and related parts of Eastern Arabia: circa 250 BCE to the present day/Michael Mitchiner. 14. Akbar Copper square Jalalahs-coinage during the siege of Asirgarh/Dr. Abhishek Chatterjee. 15. Farkhanda Buniyad Haiderabad” a new mint for the Mughal emperor Alamgir II/Ketan A. Chotai. 16. Aurangnagar and Islamabad: two new mints of the Mughal Emperor Rafi-ud-Darajat/Husain Makda. 17. The fallacy of the mint name “Sarkar Nabha Laal”/Gurprit Singh Gujral (Gurprit Singh Dora).