Tamil Coins - Sangam Age, Chola Period... Sangam Age Tamil Coins
courtesy: R.Krishnamurthy Monograph available from Garnet Publications,
34, Second Main Road, Raja Annamalaipuram,
Chennai 600 028, India see also R. Krishnamurthy. Non-Roman Ancient Foreign Coins from Karur in India
There are a few benchmarks in our knowledge of the ancient Tamil speaking people of South India, popularly referred to as the "Sangam Age" of the Tamils and approximately spanning the period between 300 B.C to 300 A.D. They are the discovery of the literature of this age ; the reading of the names of some kings of this period in the Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions ; the identification of some coins assignable to this age ; the definite attribution of a coin with the legend Peru-valuthi embossed in Tamil-Brahmi script to the Pandya King of the Sangam Age by R.Krishnamurthy, the author of this monograph . This book is the result of his painstaking effort over a decade to collect , classify and understand the coins of this age and bring out in English a comprehensive study in a single volume and attempt to present enough material to substantiate the view that the coinage of the ancient Tamil land was fairly well developed and the State was strong enough to contribute to this development process, probably due to its trans-Indian and trans-Oceanic trade contracts. Illustrated with line drawings and attractive multicolour photographs of coins, the monograph is likely to remain as a standard reference work to historians, numismatics,coin collectors, and the general readers interested in the Sangam Age of the Tamils and their coins in particular.
 'Makkotai' Silver coin | 
'Kuttuvan kotai' silver coin
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'Peru-valuthi' Pandya coin
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Pandya coin
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Chola coin
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