Short Summary
RAJASTHAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, AJMER
EXAM PATTERN FOR THE POST OF NUMISMATIST
(ARCHAEOLOGY & MUSEUM DEPARTMENT, RAJASTHAN)
Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) is the premier commission of the government of Rajasthan, for organizing recruitment exams, procedures for recruiting employees, officers to various departments of the government. It organizing all competion exam like RAS, RJS, Officers and Technical post exam etc. approximately in all Government Department.
EXAMINATION PATTERN:
A candidate must appear in all the papers. Questions carry equal marks. There will be Negative Marking. Candidate may attempt any one section. The marks and time allowed for each Paper shall be as under:-
| Section | Questions | Marks | Time |
| I | 100 | 100 | 2 Hours |
| II |
:SYLLABUS OF EXAMINATION:
I Ancient Indian History
or
II Medieval Indian History
Section – I
- Meaning, scope and definitions of Numismatics and coins.
- Identification and classification of coins – Mode of occurrence of coins – excavations, hoards, individual collections – Shape & Size, Metals/Alloys, weight metrology and denominations.
- Techniques of manufacturing coins – punching, casting, die-struck.
- Typology : Obverse – reverse device, legend, symbols, mint marks.
- Decipherment and dating – Knowledge of scripts, Brahmi, Kharoshthi, Greek. Numismatics as a source of Political, Cultural and Economic history; counterfeit coins.
- An outline history of Punched marked, Janapada & Tribal coins, coins of foreign invaders (Indo-Greeks, Shaka, Parthian), Kushanas
- Western Kshatrapa coins – Guptas, Post-Guptas and early medieval coinage.
Section – II
- Meaning, scope and definitions of Numismatics and coins.
- Identification and classification of coins – Mode of occurrence of coins – excavations, hoards, individual collections – Shape & Size, Metals/Alloys, weight metrology and denominations.
- Techniques of coin manufacturing.
- Typology : Obverse – reverse device, legend, symbols, mint marks.
- Decipherment and dating – Knowledge of scripts, Arabic/Persian/Devanagari, Numismatics as a source of Political, Cultural and Economic history, counterfeit coins.
- Salient features of medieval Indian coins, An outline history of the coinage of Mahmud Ghazanavi, Delhi Sultanate (Mamluk, Khilji, Tughlaq, Lodis ……), Shershah Suri, Mughals.
- Successors of the Mughals.
- Hindu rulers during the Sultanate and Mughal period.
- Coinage of the Sultans of Malwa and Gujarat.
- Coinage of Rajputana.
