 | James Prinsep - 1858 - 600 Seiten
...particularly in Capt. Cautley's Herculaneum, at Behat near Saharanpur. That from this period, in round terms, may be assumed the adoption of a die-device, or of coined money properly so-called, by the Hindus, is all I would venture at present to uphold; and in doing so, I will not... | |
 | James Prinsep - 1858 - 554 Seiten
...particularly in Capt. Cautley's Herculaneum, at Behat near Saharanpur. That from this period, in round terms, may be assumed the adoption of a die-device, or of coined money properly so-called, by the Hindus, is all I would venture at present to uphold ; and in doing so, I will not... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke - 1873 - 542 Seiten
...480 320 240 160 80 40 20 Was not the Roman as a pound of brass ? — and what was the Greek drackmaor the Hebrew shekel? — and when the Roman soldier...an indisputable axiom that unstamped fragments of silver and gold, of a fixed weight, must have preceded the use of regular coin." He therefore assigned... | |
 | W. S. W. VAUX, M..A., F.R.S., JOHN EVANS, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., AND BARCLAY V. HEAD - 1873 - 490 Seiten
...Prinsep's early opinion that the Hindus derived their knowledge of coinage from the Bactrian Greeks. 19 But this was his first hasty deduction put forth in...die-device, or of coined money properly so called, by the Hindus." 20 This view he propounds still more distinctly a few pages further on. 21 "It is an indisputable... | |
 | 1873 - 474 Seiten
...coins he was about to describe, that they circulated small pieces of a given weight, that stamps were given to them varying under different circumstances,...die-device, or of coined money properly so called, by the Hindus."30 This view he propounds still more distinctly a few pages further on.31 "It is an indisputable... | |
 | 1873 - 904 Seiten
...2 38,400 \9,200 9,600 3,840 1,920 1,280 960 640 480 320 240 160 I 1 2 1 4 1 M » 1 | | 4 2 1 80 40 20 Was not the Roman as a pound of brass ? — and...an indisputable axiom that unstamped fragments of r COINS OF ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS. 207 silver and gold, of a fixed weight, must have preceded the use... | |
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But this was his first hasty deduction put forth in 1832, before he had seen any really ancient Hindu coins : for, three years later, with Stacy's rich collection before him, he no longer " contended that the Hindus had no indigenous currency of the precious... 