Silk road coins

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Silk road coins by Dr. Katsumi Tanabe is a catalog of a special exhibition in 1993 hosted by the British Museum of objects from the Hirayama collection of the Institute of Silk Road studies in Kamakura (Japan). The book is bilingual (Japanese and English). It is not a coin catalogue, but rather a richly illustrated concise history book. It lists a selection of coins from central Asia and the North of the Indian peninsula, obviously chosen for the superb quality. It covers the period from the Achaemenids to the kings of Zabul - around 550BC to 870 AD. In addition to the coins themselves, the book treats 11 design themes and their place in the art of their times. This latter part gives good insight in the symbolism of the coins of this period.

For serious students of the coins of the silk road and classical art lovers who want to look beyond Greece and Rome.

Peter