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The Origins of the Indian Coinage Tradition JOE CRIBB This paper explores the history of almost two and a half thousand years of coinage in South Asia as an extension of my thoughts on the problems of the chronology of India’s first coins, which I first published in 1983, exploring the methodologies used, and 1985, proposing an alternative chronology.

Further brief comments were made in 1995-6.1 My main aim here is to continue my mission to promote clarity of thought in this problematic topic by approaching it from a fresh perspective. It is also my intention to draw attention yet again to the importance of numismatics as a discipline of considerable value to the study of Indian history and to highlight some of the insights which coins can provide in understanding the concept of unified tradition within the Indian subcontinent.

By the Indian coinage tradition I mean to refer to what is common to the numismatic heritage of the modern state