Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta

This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today. In this interview, Robert Bracey speaks about his past and ongoing work at the British Museum as the current Curator of Asian Numismatics. He talks about some of the research being conducted on the museum’s South Asian coins, particularly on the Kushan coin collection. The speakers discuss the services provided for visitors and scholars to the British Museum including the Study Room and Collections Online, and attempt to understand the lives of these coins inside the British Museum after they have made their journey from South Asia to the UK.

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Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta is an episode from Asian Studies Centre by Oxford University.

This episode is 86:47 long.

This episode was published on Jul 31, 2024.

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