Long before modern borders, Indian coins travelled across Asia and beyond. From Gupta gold to Vijayanagara pagodas, Hindu kings built strong economies whose currency circulated in foreign lands, ...

Coins have played a major role in every human civilization as a means of trade and as an indicator of power, control, and culture in a society. For example, in India the use of coins has existed for ...

Among Jawaharlal Nehru’s many ambitions for India is to make its measures metric, its thermometers Centigrade and its coinage decimal. Easier said than done. Through the length and breadth of India, ...

Soaring gold prices led Indian buyers to choose coins and bars over jewellery during the Dhanteras festival on Saturday, fuelled by hopes that the precious metal’s glittering rally would continue, ...