NUMISMATICS INTRODUCTION Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, and related objects. As numismatics is a important source of history and helps to reconstruct history so, the history of evolution of coinage system in India is interwoven with the history of progress made by mankind at different stages. The early antiquity of the Indian coinage can be fixed according to their circulation among the primitive communities in some different forms. With the evolution of human and their settlement in different localities and the extension and the growth of communities the need of exchange of different products arose. In ancient times the needs were limited and mostly supplied by nature, the trees and plants provided fruits and roots and the animals, meat to feed them the leaves and barks of trees and animal skins covered their bodies and the caves provided them shelter but gradually expanded into tribes or communities or civilization and consequently