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to Europe, from earliest times. There is a great deal of merging of coinage traditions at locations on the Silk Road, and expertise in several coinage traditions is required to understand these. A notable example is the Sino-Kharoshthi coinage of
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Errington, Vesta Curtis and Robert Bracey (2023) “Money on the Silk Road, Research at the British Museum”,
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Smirnova, Natasha, "Some
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for a full academic year to develop their knowledge of Silk Road coins." The five scholars were
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Articles on Silk Road
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Proceedings of the Symposium on Ancient Coins and the Culture of the Silk Road
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Silk Road Coins: the Hirayama Collection. A special loan exhibition from Japan
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Money on the Silk Road. The Evidence from Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800
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Shanghai Museum's Collection of Ancient Coins from the Silk Road
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/RP_Exhibitions_Chronology.pdf
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Silk Road numismatics includes all coinage traditions from
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Gallery (Room 33) and the Citi Money Gallery (Room 68)
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