Synopsis The history of the Gupta age is the special area of interest of Professor S.R. Goyal, the author of the present monograph. His doctoral thesis, A history of the imperial Guptas (Allahabad, 1967), has been widely acclaimed. Similarly, his Guptakalina Abhilekha (Meerut, 1984) is regarded as the best work on Gupta epigraphy after Fleet's Corpus. Now he has brought out the present study of Gupta coins. It is divided into four chapters--general features of the Gupta coins, gold coin types, silver and copper coins of the Guptas and Gupta impact on post-Gupta coins--and contains an exhaustive bibliography, numerous photographic illustrations and linedrawings. Though, apart from the Corpuses of John Allan and A.S. Altekar, several works dealing with various aspects of Gupta coins are now available, the present monograph is somewhat unique because it seeks to make a comprehensive but compact study of all the aspects of Gupta coins in a scientific manner and includes the results of the latest discoveries and researches. On many a numismatic problems it sheds new light and suggests new solutions. It will surely be a big help to the teachers, researchers and students of Gupta numismatics and shall remain an authoritative work on the subject for decades to come.