Overview for Standard Guide to Coin Postcards
In India, Price guide to Postcards of Poona by Dilip Rajgor (2004) was a first-ever catalogue in this field for the benefit of senior as well as up-coming collectors. This Guide helps a collector in building a rich collection of Postcards of early 20th century, vis-à-vis lessons in grading, pricing and fakes. Since then the present book, Standard Guide to Coin Postcards is a new addition not only for collection of postcards but also for ever-increasing filed of coin collectors.
The Guide has been arranged in three parts with Introduction, Guide to Catalogue and Catalogue of Postcards.
Dilip Rajgor (Author)
Dr. Dilip Rajgor received his Master's Degree in Indian History, Culture and Archaeology with a Post-graduate Diploma in Linguistics from the M.S. University of Baroda. He holds doctorate in Numismatics from the University of Bombay. He has edited the Khabarnama and the ICS newsletter from 1987-94. His published works include Standard Catalogue of Sultanate Coins of India (1991); and Studies in the Coinage of the Western Kshtrapas (with Amiteshwar Jha in 1994). Numismatic Heritage of Early Historic Gujarat; and Janapada Coins of Buddist India. He is currently completing linguistic analysis of Brahmi script. He has participated in various international and national seminars and conferences and has contributed forty-five research papers to different journals and books He has also been awarded the Lowick Memorial Grant of the Royal Numismatic Society, U.K. in 1991; and the Indological Fellowship of the Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1994.
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