The International Numismata Orientalia was an important series of publications relating to

numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...

of the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

and

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;;;;; ...

, with articles contributed by specialist numismatists, published by Messrs Trübner & Co., London, in the late nineteenth century.

The inspiration for this series

The inspiration for the series was the ''Numismata Orientalia'' produced by William Marsden, and published earlier in the nineteenth century, which opened up numismatic research in the Middle East and throughout Asia.

The title

The entire series was intended to be a new edition of Marsden's ''Numismata Orientalia'', but it reached beyond the scope of Marsden's work, and from Part 2 onwards was known as ''International Numismata Orientalia''.

The plan for the series

Details of the plan for the entire series were outlined by Edward Thomas in his preface to Vol. 1, part 1:

Publications

* ''Part 1: Ancient Indian Weights'', by Edward Thomas, 1874 * ''Part 2: Coins of the Urtuki Turkumans'', by

Stanley Lane Poole Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 – 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, uncle Reginald Stuart Poole and great-uncle E ...

, 1875 * ''Part 3: The Coinage of Lydia and Persia'', by

Barclay V. Head Barclay Vincent Head (1844–1914) was a British numismatist and keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.

, 1877 * ''Part 4: The Coins of the Tuluni Dynasty'', by

E T Rogers E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''e'' (pronounced ); plura ...

, 1877 * ''Part 5: The Parthian Coinage'', by

Percy Gardner Percy Gardner, (24 November 184617 July 1937) was an English classical archaeologist and numismatist. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1887. He was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and A ...

, 1877 * ''Part 6: On the Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon'', by T W Rhys Davids, 1877 * ''Part 7: Coins of the Jews'', by Frederic W. Madden, 1881 * ''Part 8: Coins of Arakan, of Pegu, and of Burma'', by Arthur Phayre, 1882 * ''Part 9: Coins of Southern India'', by Sir Walter Elliot, 1886World Cat: http://www.worldcat.org/title/coins-of-southern-india/oclc/128305&referer=brief_results

References

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