Coins of Ancient India: From the Earliest Times Down to the Seventh Century A. D

SIR ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM (1814-93) was the first Archaeological Surveyor to the Government of India (1861-65), the department was abolished in 1865, but revived in 1870, with Cunningham as the Director, he held the post until he retired in 1885. Apart from his official reports of his annual tours and his occasional contribution to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, he wrote on Ladakh, The Bhilsa Topes, The Ancient Geography of India: The Buddhist Period, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol.I, Inscriptions of Ashoka, The Stupa of Bharhut, The Book of Indian Eras, Mahabodhi: Coins of Ancient India, Later Indo-Scythians, Coins of Medieval India, Coins of Indo-Scythians, Sakas and Kushanas, and Coins of Alexander’s Successors in the East.