ONS Journal
Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society
The Society’s journal has been published since 1971, initially as the ONS Newsletter and since 2006 as the Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society. Starting out as a one-paged sheet, it is now an international peer-reviewed publication that is issued quarterly.
Our archive of past issues can be accessed here.
The Society welcomes submissions to the journal from all members. The guidelines
can be found at https://www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org/jons/submission-request/.
251: Spring 2023

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Editorial Paula Turner |
1 |
A Yaudheya coin of the bull/elephant type with a new legend Devendra Handa |
1 |
A gold parcel hoard of Kanishka I from Skhakot, Malakand District near Peshawar, Pakistan Gul Rahim Khan |
4 |
A unique Fatimid damma from ‘al-Sind wa al-Hind’ Bilal Ahmed |
15 |
A group of twelfth-century Indian gold coins from Balkh John S. Deyell |
20 |
Reading suggestions and revised attribution for some Malay tin coins recovered from the Batanghari and Musi rivers, Sumatra Aditya Bayu Perdana |
22 |
ONS news |
28 |
Book reviews and notices |
30 |
250: Winter 2022

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Page |
A Letter from Your Secretary General Pankaj Tandon |
1 |
Fifty Years of the Oriental Numismatic Society Joe Cribb |
1 |
On Attribution: Interpretative challenges in Indo-Sasanian (and other) coinages John S. Deyell |
5 |
Recent Developments in Chinese Numismatics Dai Jianbing |
13 |
The Circulation and Use of Bamboo Tallies in Jiangsu Province with Particular Reference to the Tongcheng Company Issues François Thierry |
17 |
Cataloguing the Private Cash of Ancient Annam François Joyaux |
22 |
Fresh Light on the Copper Coins of the Vemakis Amiteshwar Jha |
28 |
The Evidence of Gold Content for the Attribution of the Coins in the Name of Candragupta Pankaj Tandon |
33 |
From Bishapur to Vienna: A note on a hoard of late Sasanian drachms Ehsan Shavarebi |
44 |
Immobilized Types in Sogdian Coinage: The case of mules between Antiochus imitations and Hyrcodes Aleksandr Naymark |
46 |
Mints and Urban Dynamics: Baghdād, al-Raqqa and other places Stefan Heidemann |
54 |
Badshah as the Caliph: Probing caliphal pretensions of the Mughal rulers of India Sanjay Garg |
54 |
A Biography in Banknotes: The life and career of Alfred Joseph Bull, 1876–1950 Richard Morel |
61 |
Bombay Tolas Michael Mitchiner |
62 |
249: Autumn 2022

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Page |
A Letter from Your Secretary General ~ Pankaj Tandon |
1 |
A Brief Note on Two Newly Discovered Denominations of Eucratides I Megas: Tridrachms and Pentadrachms ~ Chenyu (David) Zeng |
2–4 |
A Not So ‘Unfortunate’ Kushano-Sasanian Coin ~ Joe Cribb, Hans Loeschner, René Traum and Klaus Vondrovec |
4–7 |
Re-reading a Silver Coin of Ancient Arakan and the Chronology of the Chandra Kings ~ Md Shariful Islam and Joe Cribb |
8–14 |
An Analytical Examination of Georgian–Sasanian Coins and Their Meaning in Numismatics ~ Jonathan Ouellet |
15–22 |
King Mindon’s Early Coinages ~ Jun Li |
23–29 |
ONS News – Pakistan Region Meeting 7 August 2022 |
29 |
Book notice – Copper Coins of Muscat and Oman dated AH 1311–1316 (1893–1899 CE) by Scott E. Cordry ~ Wolfgang Schuster |
30 |
Book review – Chinese Numismatics: The world of Chinese money by Helen Wang, François Thierry and Lyce Jankowski with an introduction by Joe Cribb ~ Helen Wang |
30–31 |
Book review – Maldives Local Coins 1070-1331 AH – AD 1660-1913 by Peter Budgen ~ Shailendra Bhandare |
31–32 |
248: Summer 2022

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Page |
A Letter from Your Secretary General ~ Pankaj Tandon |
1 |
Note from Your New Editor ~ Paula Turner |
1 |
Audumbara Coins with New Features and Disposition of Legends ~ Devendra Handa |
2 |
A Hoard Parcel of Late Kushan Gold Dinars ~ Joe Cribb and K. K. Maheshwari |
6 |
New Gold Coins of the Paramāra King Jagadeva ~ Deme Raja Reddy |
12 |
A Preliminary and Metallurgical Study on the Chola, Chinese and Venad coins from Thankasseri ~ Kollam Hari Sankar B. and Sarath Chandra Babu |
14 |
ONS News: North America Meeting 15 January 2022 |
21 |
ONS News: Europe Meeting 7 May 2022 |
23 |
Book review: Zhong guo xi zang qian bi tu lu [Illustrated catalogue of the currency of Tibet, China] by Yin Zhengmin |
27 |
Book review: Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their origin and history, edited by Dániel Balogh |
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Book review: The Alkhan: A Hunnic people in South Asia by Hans T. Bakker |
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Book review: Rivalling Rome: Parthian coins and culture by V. Curtis and A. Magub |
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Book review: Guqian jipin [Exceptional Rarities among the Ancient Coins by Huo Hongwei [in Chinese] |
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247: Spring 2022

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Page |
Silver Coins of Jajapella King Gopala Deva ~ Karan Singh |
3 |
Some Aq Qoyunlu and Safavid Copper Coins of Jahrom ~ Seyed Omid Mohammadi and Reza Ghanaatpishe |
6 |
Pucka Pice in Fatehpur District 1839: The Wide and Long-lasting Circulation of Awadh’s Coppers ~ Jan Lingen and Jan Lucassen |
9 |
Catalogue of the Coins of the Bengal Presidency – Part III ~ Paul Stevens and Robert Johnston |
16 |
Book Review: Erach Rediscovered: Coins, Inscriptions, Seals and Sealings (Om Prakash Lal Srivastava) ~ Karan Singh |
45 |
ONS News |
46 |
246: Winter 2021

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Page |
Some New Varieties and Types of Copper Coins of the Agra Tribe ~ Devendra Handa |
3 |
Classification of Sado Iron Coins from the Bunkyu Period ~ John Madlon |
8 |
Catalogue of the Coins of the Bengal Presidency – Part II ~ Paul Stevens and Robert Johnston |
11 |
Book Review: Ancient Indian Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue (Wilfried Pieper) ~ Karan Singh |
29 |
ONS News |
30 |
245: Autumn 2021

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Page |
The Coinage of Trigarta Janapada and its Identification with Takkadesa ~ Karan Singh |
3 |
Lion as Shiva’s Vehicle on Kashmir Coins ~ Devendra Handa |
7 |
A New Mint for the Coins of Shams al-Din Yusuf Shah ~ S.M. Iftekhar Alam and Zahid Mamun |
10 |
The Beginning of Ottoman Para Coinage ~ Nikolaus Schindel |
11 |
Catalogue of the Coins of the Bengal Presidency – Part I ~ Paul Stevens and Robert Johnston |
15 |
Book Review: When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics (Frank Holt) ~ Jonathan Ouellet |
28 |
ONS News |
29 |
Obituary: Dr. Werner Burger ~ Tim Huxley |
30 |
244: Summer 2021

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Page |
“A Group of Mauryan Punchmarked Coins, Including Mashakas” ~ Tyler Holman |
3 |
“Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coinage – Part 1: Notes on the Coins of the Diodotids” (Supplement) ~ Heinz Gawlik |
10 |
“Heavy Lead Coinage of the Mitra Kings of Ancient Punjab” ~ Karan Singh |
11 |
“A New Initial of a King of Samatata” ~ Md. Shariful Islam and Md. Shamsuddin |
13 |
“A Note on the Newly-Discovered Coin and its Context in the Samataṭa Gold Coin Series” ~ Joe Cribb |
19 |
“A New Gold Coin of Nasir al-Din Isma‘il Shah, the Rebel Sultan in the Deccan” ~ Shailendra Bhandare |
23 |
243: Spring 2021

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Page |
Legends on the Karttikeya-Devasena Coins of the Yaudheyas: A New Classification ~ Karan Singh |
3 |
Countermarked Arab-Sasanian Copper Coins of Jahrom ~ Seyed Omid Mohammadi and Saeed Soleimani |
8 |
The First Burmese Coin Hoard Outside Burma ~ S.K. Bose and Nirupam Khanikar |
15 |
Pyne, McDermott and the Emir: The Advent of Machine-Minted Coinage in Afghanistan ~ N.R. Jenzen-Jones with J. Shanley |
20 |
ONS news |
24 |
Book review: Kushan Mystique (David Jongeward) ~ Pankaj Tandon |
26 |