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BURMA 67
MALAY STATES 68, 69
SIAM AND INDO-CHINA 70, 71
THE FAR EAST, ECONOMIC 72, 73
EAST INDIES 74, 75
JAVA 76
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 77
ISLAND OF SINGAPORE 78
HONG-KONG 79
CHINA AND JAPAN 80, 81
NORTHERN CHINA 82, 83
SOUTHERN CHINA 84, 85
ENVIRONS OF PEKING AND SHANGHAI 86
ENVIRONS OF HONG-KONG AND MANILA 87
JAPAN 88, 89
KOREA AND MANCHURIA 90
CENTRAL JAPAN 91
ENVIRONS OF TOKIO 92
ENVIRONS OF PORT-ARTHUR AND NAGASAKI 93
SIBERIA 94, 95
ENVIRONS OF VLADIVOSTOK 96
A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE COINAGES OF ASIA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY, BY J. ALLAN, M.A., M.R.A.S. 97
LINE MAPS
BATTLE OF SIRANGAPATAM, February 1792 130
BATTLE OF ASSAYE, September 1803 131
BATTLE OF MEANEE, February 1843 131
BATTLE OF ALIWAL, January 1846 132
BATTLE OF SOBRAON, February 1846 132
INDIAN MUTINY, SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF TROOPS, May 1857 133
ARYAN LANGUAGES OF INDIA 134
NON-ARYAN LANGUAGES OF INDIA 135
SITES OF ANCIENT INDIAN TEMPLES 136, 137
MILITARY DIVISIONS OF INDIA 138
DELHI 139
LUCKNOW 140
CAWNPORE 141
LAHORE 142
RANGOON 143
LHASA, "THE FORBIDDEN CITY" 144
A GAZETTEER OF TOWNS AND PLACES IN ASIA HAVING AN HISTORIC INTEREST 145
INDEX 173
A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE COINAGES OF ASIA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
A BRIEF SURVEY
OF THE
COINAGES OF ASIA
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
BY J. ALLAN, M.A., M.R.A.S.
Mohammad's interdiction of any form of image-making, as savouring of idolatry, limited the orthodox Caliph to legends on his coins, but thereby gave Arab coins an importance as historical documents possessed by no other series. From the earliest times they bore the mint and date , and later the ruler's name and titles, often including valuable genealogical data, were added. The right of striking coins was one of the privileges of sovereignty, and Muslim coins thus throw a good deal of light on Arab history.
They were followed about the middle of the first century B.C. by the Kushans who founded a great empire in North-West India. The Kushan kings of whom the greatest was Kanishka, famed in Buddhist legend, have left a great wealth of gold and copper coins remarkable for the variety of deities depicted on their reverses .
At the end of the eighteenth century numerous states became practically independent of the Great Moghul, but struck coins which still bore his name. When the last Moghul Emperor was deposed in 1858, the name of Queen Victoria began to appear on the coins of such native states as were allowed to continue issuing coins. To attain uniformity in the currency of the empire this right has been gradually curtailed by the British government, and is now exercised only by a few of the more important states, such as Hyderabad, which issues coins struck by modern European machinery.
It is only recently that a serious attempt to institute a silver coinage in China has been made. In the nineties of last century, mints with European machinery were instituted in each province, and struck silver and copper coins of European fabric for Sze-Chuan. During the last thirty years bilingual silver coins have been issued for the Mohammadan population of Chinese Turkestan . One of the most remarkable of Chinese coins is the silver rupee recently issued for the Sze-chuan province, bearing the Emperor's head, and copied from the Indian rupee, with which it is destined to compete for Tibetan trade .
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