History of Indian Numismatics?

Question

When the study of Indian Numismatics(study of coins) started?

Answer 1

This is my favorite subject and great hobby also.

When I gone through the numismatics studies ,I found that many foreign scholars started this study.

Major general Cunnigham,E.J. rapson,whitehead,Sir Jon princep,C j Brown and others were the pioneer.

Maharashtra Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal,Numismatic society of India ,The Asiatic Society of Bombay are prominent numismatics study organizations.

Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies,Indian coin society are very much active.

Answer 2

. The entire history of Indian coinage (starting from about 6th century B.C.







the study of ancient Indian coins is now a well-established discipline with a history of about two centuries behind it. But strangely no monograph on its historiography has so far been published. The present full-length monograph on this subject is thus a pioneering study. It critically examines all the important works and research articles published during the last two hundred years. it begins with the progress of the study of the problems of the origin and antiquity of coinage in India and is followed by the historiography of PMC, local and tribal coins, Indo-Greek coinage, coinages of the Imperial Scythians and Pahlavas and the Western Kshatrapas and the coinage of the Kushanas . . the numismatography of the Satavahanas, the Guptas, the Vakatakas and the post-Gupta dynasties . some miscellaneous aspects of ancient Indian numismatics, not covered in the study of the coins of various periods and dynasties, have been examined. Thus this monograph is at once a pioneering and comrephensive study of the historiography of ancient Indian numismatics.

Answer 3

Well, the studies were begun in India, during the 20th century mid (may be), but as a hobby, it started during the early moghul periods itself.*

Answer 4

Maybe,you could research it on the web!!!!