Synopsis The author has discussed the right of minting coins, their metrology, metals etc. quite judiciously but has left out the repousse technique and the true import of the droplet method in his treatment of the modes of manufacturing coins. While dealing with the origin and antiquity of Indian coinage, Prof. Goyal has depended mainly on available old books and articles many of which have become almost obsolete now. Glaring examples of omissions are Joe Cribb's 'Dating India's Earliest Coins' (South Asian Archaeology, 1983, 535-54), B.N. Mukherjee's 'Emergence of Coinage in the Indian subcontinent' (JNSI, LI, 38-47) and, of course, various other articles on the subject published in the recent years. For punchmarked coins, the author seems to have depended mainly on the 'Seminar Papers on the Chronology of the Punch Marked Coinage' (Varanasi, 1966) while the important and authentic work of P.L. Gupta and T.R. hardaker (Ancient Indian Silver Punchmarked coins of the Magadha-Maurya Karshapana Series, Nasik, 1985) has been related only to the bibliographical entry. It thus seems that Prof. Goyal had been compiling his notes while teaching this subject in the University and when he thought of publishing this book, he just referred to some important discoveries, books and articles in the Addenda and the Bibliography. This is true of his treatment of the Local, Tribal and Naigama coins also which covers 93 pages. The account of the Kuminda coinage does not have any reference to the important works of Bela Lahiri (Indigenous States of Northern India), P.L. Gupta (Numismatic History of Himachal Pradesh) and M.P. Joshi (Morphogenesis of the Kumindas) besides some articles published in the recent years. The author seems to have accepted as final the attribution of the 'Kada' coins to the Kathas without caring to refer to its reputation published many years ago (ND, VI, 12-16). New material on the coins of the Audumbaras Vemakas, Vrishnis (ND, VII, 11-21), Arjunayanas (ND, I, 14-18), Sibis (JNSI, XLIV, 24-28), Yaudheyas (ND, VIII, 24 ff; NS, I, 63-78; Spink Numismatic Circular, CI No. 6, 193-94), Malavas (Coinage, Trade & Economy, Nasik, 1991, 36-45) etc. has not been incorporated in the volume.