Syllabus
- Meaning, scope and definition of numismatics and coins
- Identification and classification of coins – Mode of occurrence
- Techniques of manufacturing coins – punching, casting, die-struck
- Decipherment and dating – knowledge of scripts, Brahmi, Kharosthi, and Greek.
- Numismatics as a source of political, cultural and economic history
- Punched marked
- Western Kshatriya coins- Guptas, post- Guptas and early medieval coins.