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Informationen zum Autor Joe Cribb is a specialist in the monetary history of Asia. He worked as a curator of Asian currencies at the British Museum for 40 years before retiring in 2010 as the Keeper of Coins and Medals. In 2021 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Numismatics in the School of History and Culture at Hebei Normal University. He has authored and edited books on Chinese, Indonesian and Central and South Asian currencies and history, and introductory books on coins and many articles on Asian coins and numismatic practice. Klappentext A comprehensive study of the Kushan dynasty and their coins, revealing political, cultural, and religious history across Central and South Asia. The Kushans were a dynasty of thirteen kings who ruled from approximately AD 50 to AD 350. At the height of their power they ruled from their original centre around the upper Amu Darya river (south-western Tajikistan, northern Afghanistan, south-eastern Uzbekistan) through Pakistan and into northern India. The coinage of the Kushan kings and of their immediate successors the Sasanian Kushanshahs and the Kidarite Hun Kushanshahs are a key component of our understanding of the history of ancient Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the first four centuries AD. Modern knowledge of each of these kingdoms began with the discovery of their coins which continue to reveal new aspects of the political structure of these states, their geographical extent, the religious system of their rulers and the development of scripts and languages in the region. The Kushans were the first dynasty to introduce a regular gold coinage in South Asia and ruled at a time of major social and religious change. Both they and their coins have received more attention than any other Central or South Asian dynasty of the early first millennium. This landmark publication will give a comprehensive account of the British Museum's extensive collection of coins from this period as well as place them into a wider historical and cultural context. 2 volumes in slipcase. Zusammenfassung The coinage of the Kushan kings (1st to 4th centuries) and of their immediate successors the Sasanian Kushanshahs (3rd-4th centuries) and the Kidarite Hun Kushanshahs (4th-5th centuries) are a key component of our understanding of the history of ancient Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the early centuries AD....
