A Letter from Your Secretary General

Dear ONS members,

It brings me great pleasure to introduce you to this special 50th Anniversary Conference issue of the Society's journal. This double issue is also fittingly the 250th volume of the journal and its antecedents.

As many of you no doubt remember, the Society celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020 and the conference was originally scheduled to be held in April of that year. Of course, you all know what happened next. The pandemic forced a postponement to 2021 and then, when the pandemic had not yet abated by April of that year, another postponement to 2022. Early this year, there was still a lot of uncertainty about whether things would open up and permit international travel to take place in earnest. The Council decided not to risk the need for another postponement and opted to commit to hold the conference via Zoom only.

Spread over two half-days, to allow more people worldwide to attend, the Conference was held on 25 and 26 June. It brought together speakers from eight countries and covered a wide range of areas within the purview of the Society. There were two keynote speakers, John Deyell and Dai Jianbing, and ten other speakers. Joe Cribb, who organized the conference, also gave a brief historical retrospective on the Society. All but two of these talks are published here in full; many of them are also available as video recordings on the Society's YouTube channel. (If you are not already a subscriber, I urge you to subscribe: just search for Oriental Numismatic Society on YouTube).

Pankaj Tandon, Secretary General of the Oriental Numismatic Society

CONTENTSLetter from Your Secretary General
Pankaj Tandon

Fifty Years of the Oriental Numismatic Society
Joe Cribb

On Attribution: Interpretative challenges in Indo-Sasanian(and other) coinages
John S. Deyell

Recent Developments in Chinese Numismatics
Dai Jianbing

The Circulation and Use of Bamboo Tallies in Jiangsu Provincewith Particular Reference to the Tongcheng Company Issues
François Thierry

Cataloguing the Private Cash of Ancient Annam
François Joyaux

Fresh Light on the Copper Coins of the Vemakis
Amiteshwar Jha

The Evidence of Gold Content for the Attribution of the Coinsin the Name of Candragupta
Pankaj Tandon

From Bishapur to Vienna: A note on a hoard of late Sasanian drachms
Ehsan Shavarebi

Immobilized Types in Sogdian Coinage: The case of mules between Antiochus imitations and Hyrcodes
Aleksandr Naymark

Mints and Urban Dynamics: Baghdad, al-Raqqa and other places
Stefan Heidemann

Badshah as the Caliph: Probing caliphal pretensions of theMughal rulers of India
Sanjay Garg

A Biography in Banknotes: The life and career of Alfred Joseph Bull, 1876-1950
Richard Morel

Bombay Tolas
Michael Mitchiner

For more information, see:
https://www.orientalnumismaticsociety.org/