The Ashoka Prize is awarded annually to the best paper published that year in the Journal, as judged by the Editorial Board. The Prize, valued at £250, is sponsored by a generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
The 2023 Prize went to:
Barbara Mears: ‘A find of coins and letters relating to H.W. Codrington’ (JONS 252).
The following received honorable mentions:
The winner of the prize for 2022 is:
Aleksandr Naymark: ‘Immobilized Types in Sogdian Coinage: The case of mules between Antiochos imitations and Hycodes’ (JONS 250).
Honorable mentions go to the following:
The winner of the prize for 2021 is:
Nikolaus Schindel: The Beginning of Ottoman Para Coinage (JONS 245)
Honorable mentions go to the following (listed in alphabetical order by author):
The winner of the prize for 2020 is:
J. Mark Ritchie for his ‘The Tozai Senpu Coin Rubbings and Kutsuki Masatsuna’s Vietnamese coins’, which featured in JONS 240. Our congratulations to Mark and our thanks also to the other authors whose articles were published in the Journal.