Please note:  If you would like submit your Southasia-coin related website for consideration, please send email to southasia-coins-owner@egroups.com.

 

South Asia Coin Pages - Members


Nupam’s webpage for the Indian Coins - Nupam Mahajan http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/welcome.html
Coins from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - Kavan Ratnatunga http://lakdiva.com/coins/
Tranquebar, Coins and history (plus South India and Ceylon) – Uno Barner Jensen http://www.tranquebar.dk/welcome.htm
The Coins and History of Asia – T.K. Mallon   http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/coins.html
Coins of Vijayanagar Empire - Sri Oruganti Harihariah (contacted for membership) http://www.vijayanagaracoins.com/htm/catalog.htm
India & Indian Ocean Numismatics – Allan L.T Speedy http://www.netnz.co.nz/homepages/numis/
Jean Michael's Web Site - Jean Michael http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/2261/NUM1E.html
Modern Coins of India - Paul Baker http://www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk/inmain.htm
R.C. Senior's Page on Indo-Scythians - R.C. Senior www.rcsenior.com
Coins of India, and "Bharat" - Dieter Baumgarten www.indiacoins.de, www.bharat.de
Princely States Report - The online journal of Indian States Philately and History, edited by Ron Rice www.princelystates.com
ABIA Index - internet bibliographical database on South and SE Asian art, archaeology, numismatics, etc.  Ellen M. Raven, Coordinating Editor www.abia.net
Coin Collectors Club, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India - Kalyan Guha, Secretary http://www.geocities.com/coin_club_jsr/about_club.html
Prabhu's Webpage on Indian Coins - Mr. Govind Prabhu http://prabhu.50g.com
Mr. Hameed Akhtar Siddiqui's Collection of Indian Coins www.indiancoins.8m.com
Dr. Pankaj Tandon's CoinIndia: The Virtual Museum of Indian Coins - Aim is to develop a comprehensive site of Indian coins of all time periods.  Currently exhibits some exquisite ancient coins. www.coinindia.com
Mr. Anurag Varshney's beautiful site on Banknotes of India http://www.geocities.com/enchantedhorse/
Mr. Johan Lindhout's Elephants in Numismatics http://home-1.concepts.nl/~bjrlind/
Mr. J. Franklin Campbell's Website for "British India 1862 - 1901" - Queen Victoria. http://correspondencechess.com/india/

        

Booksellers - Member Dealers


Mr. Raju Bhatt, New Delhi, India http://www.coinbooks.esmartweb.com/
Mr. Scott Semans, Seattle, WA, USA www.coincoin.com
Mr. Steve Album, Santa Rosa, CA, USA http://stevealbum.virtualave.net/

 

 

Numismatic Organizations


Oriental Numismatic Society  (ONS Newsletter Index) http://www.onsnumis.org/
Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic Studies http://www.nashik.com/organisation/iirns.html
American Numismatic Society, South Asian Coin Cabinet http://www.amnumsoc.org/collections/cusasia.html

 

Other


Islamic Coins Page http://members.fortunecity.com/islamiccoinsgroup/
Indian Archeology Online www.serindian.com
Dr. Dilip Rajgor's Sarasvati River web site www.sarasvatiriver.com
Chinese Coinage Website http://www.charm.ru/
New Findings in Ancient Afghanistan: Bactrian documents discovered from the Northern Hindu-Kush - Prof. Nicholas Sims, September 1997 http://www.gengo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hkum/bactrian.html

 

 

Principal Collections of South Asian Coins (from The Coins of India, by C.J. Brown, 1922.  Note:  museum names might have changed!)


SOUTH ASIA

Institution

Contact Name

Series Well Represented

Indian Museum, Calcutta   all classes
Delhi Museum of Archeology   Sultans of Delhi, Mughals
Lahore (erstwhile Punjab)  Museum, Lahore   Indo-Greek, Sakas, Pahlavas, Sultans of Delhi, Mughals, Sikhs
Provincial Museum, Lucknow   Ancient Indian, Guptas, Sultans of Delhi, Mughals, Awadh
Government Central Museum, Madras   South India, Ceylon, Mysore, East India Co., Sultans of Delhi, Mughals, Indo-Portuguese
Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay   Gujarat, Mughals, Marathas
Provincial Museum, Shillong   Sultans of Bengal, Assam, Koch, Jaintia
Central Museum, Nagpur   Sultans of Delhi, Mughals, Marathas, Bahmanis
Dacca Museum   Sultans of Bengal
Patna Museum   punch-marked, Sultans of Delhi, Sultans of Bengal, Mughal
Peshawar Museum   Indo-Greek, Sakas, Pahlavas, Mughals, Durranis
Macmoham Museum, Quetta   Mughals, Durranis, Barakzais
Museums in Sri Lanka   Please see member Kavan Ratnatunga's page at http://lakdiva.com/coins/media/museums.html

 

 

EUROPE

Institution

Contact Name / Details

Series Well Represented

Ashmolean Museum Nick Mayhew, Shailendra Bhandare

good sultanate and state material, and a very good collection of Durrani coins

Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet de medailles, Paris Osmund Bopearachchi  
Birmingham    

British Museum

 

all classes

Danish Royal coin cabinet, Copenhagen    
Dresden    
Edinburgh (NMS)    
Fitzwilliam Museum Mark Blackburn / Michael Matzke  
Glasgow (The Huntarian)    
Hermitage, St. Petersburg Sasha Naymark  
Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet, Leiden
Arent Pol
 
Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin    
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Michael Alram  
Manchester Museum Keith Sugden small collection of Indian coins
National Museum of Wales - Cardiff Edward Besley  
National Museum, Denmark   small collection of Indian coins
Niedersachsische Munzkabinett der Deutschen Bank Reiner Kunz  
Prague Vlastimil Novac  
Sammlung Kohler-Osbahr, Duisburg Ralf Althoff  
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Bernd Kluge  
Swedish Royal coin cabinet, Stockholm    
Tubingen Lutz Illisch  
Westfalischen Landesmuseum, Muenster, Germany Peter Illisch  

 

 

U.S.A.

Institution

Contact Name

Series Well Represented

American Numismatic Association William F. Spengler  
American Numismatic Society Museum, New York Michael Bates all classes
The Smithsonian Dick Doty