Numismatic Society of Diest – Festschrift in Honour of Dr Ellen Raven

By the Diestse Studiekring voor Numismatiek
 
Numismatic studies no. 5 of the Numismatic Society of Diest. This Festschrift pays tribute to Dr Ellen M. Raven who retired last year. She is an art historian and Indologist who, since 2002, taught South Asian arts and material culture at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leiden. This Festschrift is a collection of ten contributions from fellow numismatists.
 
Only 100 copies printed
 
‘s-Hertogenbosch: 2023. Hardback. 156 pages.
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Introduction
 
Bibliography of Dr Ellen Raven
 
Indian Numismatics
 
Sanjeev Kumar
The misunderstood Coinage of Chandragupta II of the Gupta dynasty – A rebuttal
 
Pankaj Tandon
An analysis of the gold content in Gupta gold coins
 
Joe Cribb
The Heritage of Kushan designs on early Gupta and other south and central Asian coins
 
Prashant P. Kulkarni
Coins of Beṇṇākaṭa Bhojakaṭa
 
Amol N. Bankar
Seal of Mahārāja Śrī Pravarasena from the Kālañjara fort
 
Shailendra Bhandare
Rashtrakutas gold coinage: new discoveries and insights
 
Jan Peter Schouten
Hindi Gods on colonial coins
 
Hellenistic numismatics
 
Patrick Pasmans & Jonathan Quellet
Unusual Alexandrian lion coins from Babylon
 
Rudy Dillen
Commagene:… the would-be kings
 
Patrick Pasmans
Historical evolution from the silver and copper content in tetradrachms of the Characenian kings in Mesene (Southern Iraq), struck in the period 288-355 SE (= 24/3 BCE – 44/5 CE)