Catalogue of the coins of the Andhra dynasty, the Western Ksatrapas, the Traikutaka dynasty, and the

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A CATALOGUE
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CATALOGUE
OF THE
COINS OF THE ANDHRA DYNASTY
THE WESTERN KSATRAPAS
THE TRAIKtJTAKA DYNASTY
AND THE "BODHI" DYNASTY
BY
EDWAED JAMES EAPSON, M.A.
PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIIKJE,
LATE ASSISTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COINS
AND MEDALS, BRITISH MUSEUM
WITH ONE MAP AND TWENTY-ONE PLATES
LONDON
PRINTED BYOEDEROF THE TRUSTEES OFTHEBRITISH MUSEUM
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PREFACE BY THE KEEPER OF COINS,
The present volume of the Catalogue of the Indian Coins in
the British Museum describes the coins of the Andhra Dynasty,
the Western Ksatrapas, the Traiktitakas, and the ' Bodhi
Dynasty.
It gives me great pleasure to state that, as the last pages
are passing through the press, I have received information that,
through the good of&ces of Mr. J. H. Marshall, the Director
General of Archaeology in India, all the specimens of Andhra
coinage here described as belonging to the collection of the late
General Godfrey Pearse have been presented to the British
Museum by the Government of India.
The volume is furnished with a map, drawn up by the
author and executed by Messrs. Stanford and Co., to illustrate
the political divisions of Western India as they appear in the
inscriptions of the Andhras and Western Ksatrapas about the
middle of the second century a.d.
The size of the coins is given in inches and tenths, and their
weight in grains Troy. Tables for converting grains into
grammes, as well as into the measures of Mionnet's scale, will
be found at the end of the Catalogue (pp. 214-16).
The work has been written by Prof. E. J. Kapson, of Cam-
bridge University, formerly an assistant in the Department of
Coins and Medals.
H. A. GEUEBEK.
IJUITISII MUSKIM.
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