NEW BOOK: KUSHAN COINS AND HISTORY:

 

Kushan Coins and History: A Type Catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun Coins Based on the Collection of the British Museum, The British Museum, London 2025 (ISBN 9780861591916), 870 pages in two volumes.

Professor Joe Cribb, Hebei Normal University, and his former colleague Robert Bracey, curator of Asian money at the British Museum, have just published their study of Kushan and related coins. This book is the culmination of twenty years of research.

The book catalogues all the Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite coins in the British Museum, presented in the context of a history of the rulers who issued them and the monetary systems they established. It is designed as a type corpus of the series, so alongside the British Museum coins, the authors also list all the known types of these coins not in the British Museum, drawing on public and private collections from across the world. The catalogue is arranged by ruler, mint and phase of issue to illustrate the structure of the coinage system. The catalogue listing is prefaced by an introduction to the history and coinage of the Kushan kings and their successors and to the history of the British Museum collection.

 

This is the first full presentation of the series since Robert Göbl's System und Chronologie der Mu¨nzpra¨gung des Kus?a¯nreiches (Vienna 1984). It is not intended to replace that volume which still contains vital information, but to present the coinage in a more accessible format for archaeologists, historians, and coins collectors and dealers.

 

The book is now available from the British Museum shop for £60.00 https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/rp-191-kushan-coins-and-history.html and it is also available on line at https://britishmuseum.iro.bl.uk/concern/books/30215789-c913-4bab- 9f18-0bf1a8ffbb8a?locale=en, where it can be downloaded for free.

 

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