Catalogue Of The Gupta Gold Coins In The Bayana Hoard , (PB)

About the book:-It is common knowledge that India is a land of hoary tradition, with a glory and spiritual culture, all her own. Treasures deep lie buried in the far past, we come by finds of great historical interest and importance. It was his good fortune to have been able to retrieve a treasure of such historical import, the finding of which was under peculiar circumstances, which are set out in the opening pages of this work. They are found to belong to the days of the great Guptas that ruled our land some sixteen centuries ago with signal success.This book will be found to be an interesting one from several points of view. It is the Catalogue of the biggest hoard of ancient Indian gold coins that was ever discovered and recovered in the history of Indian Archaeology. It gives an accurate and full description of the 1821 coins of the hoard which were recovered, recording carefully the size and weight of each.