Indian Numismatics
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The fascinatingly wide range which the historical studies and generalizations of D. D. Kosambi cover is known to all his readers and it is indeed a measure of his great versatility that in no other area was the relationship between his ‘basic’ discipline and history as direct as in the study of coins. A Professor of Mathematics all through his teaching career and an acknowledged original contributor to statistical and genetical studies,” Kosambi did not, however, let statistics alone dominate his numismatic research; his papers on the subject show him to be equipped with not only the basic rigours of physically handling coins but also his capacity to use, in his attempts to buttress his statistical findings, an impressive mass of literary data, and his familiarity with the latest research on coins, Indian and non-Indian.
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