ONS News including AGM 2008, London, Cologne and Kolkata meetings

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New members and revised addresses

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New and recent publications

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The prolongation of Yazid b. Usayd’s reign in the northwest of the caliphate (S. Turkia & I. Paghava)

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A dinar of the Ildegizid ruler, Amir Amiran ‘Umar (A.V. Akopyan & F. Mosanef)

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Indo-Greek chronology c.200-145 bc (Jens Jakobsson)

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Ardashir II Kushanshah and Huvishka the Kushan: numismatic evidence for the date of the Kushan king, Kanishka I (N. Schindel)

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A fractional al-Hakim billon coin of Muhammad bin Tughluq (G. Cawser)

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Some tankas of the Sultans of Bengal (P. Stevens & S. Goron)

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Another new mint for the fish paisas of the Doab (B. Tabor)

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Making the most in ‘troubled times’: Jean-Baptiste Filose and this coinage (S. Bhandare)

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Coins of the Sikhs: Mora and Aarsi myths (Gurprit Singh Dora)

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Some early Tibetan tangkas (W. Bertsch)

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A Fantasy of a Tibetan 10 tam pattern coin (W. Bertsch)

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A new variety of the no-cross type silver coins of Davit IV of Georgia (I. Paghava & D Patsia)

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The mint of al-Ma‘ashūq (Y. Jafar)

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