Which the various historical information that we come to know from ancient coin
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The History of coins extends from ancient times to the present, and is related to economic history, the history of minting technologies, the history shown by the images on coins, and the history of coin collecting. Coins are still widely used for monetary and other purposes.
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In archelogical excavations, we come across numbers of coins and these coins reveals the history in different aspects.
Coins are from time to time either in course of archelogical excavations or as accidental finds during digging operations of the earth. The coins plays an vital role in illuminating history not known from other sources and help in it's reconstruction. Study of coins modify and amplify history. Coins are not only source of economic history but also give a extensive information about official, religious and cult, political thought, ideology and actual portraiture of historical figures.
Hoards are special findings of coins discovered almost by chance apart from stray coin finds or archaeological discoveries. For examples: Bayana hoard (Bharatpur District, Rajasthan) 1821 Gupta gold coins, Tarhala hoard (Akola District, Maharashtra) Satavahana Coins, Jogilthembi hoard (Nasik district, Maharashtra)- 13250 Silver coins.
Decipherment of the alphabets of our Ancient Indian scripts namely Brahmi and Kharosthi by Prinsep, Lassen, Norris and Cunningham on the basis of study of Indo- Greek bilingual coins. Greek legend on obverse side and its Prakrit translation scripts is on the reverse side. This decipherment of the ancient scripts helped in understanding the large numbers of ancient inscriptions found around the country adding greatly to the Indian History. This led to the study of India epigraphy and it has been authoritatively estimated that 80% of our knowledge of history of India before 1000AD is derived from the inscriptional sources. Thus coins have given immortality to many a run who would otherwise have been consigned to oblivion.
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