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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 |