Indian Temple Architecture through Numismatic evidence: Temples on Coins By Anita Choudhary Introduction Ancient India is full of marvel and every time we turn the pages of it, we stumble upon something fascinating. Today we will study the Indian Temples on coins and revise the evolution of temple architecture! Numismatics has discovered various historical facts about Indian history. Every tiny piece of coin reveals the different story behind it. Coin collecting is a fascinating hobby, but what attracts you the most when you see a coin? Metal or symbol or both? While the symbols play an important role in Numismatics. A coin without a symbol would just be a sole piece of a metal. All the symbols of the ancient coins were perceived and inspired by nature, for example, trees, mountains, animals, sun, moon, fish, etc. But there are few of the symbols on coins which we never thought that it would exist on Ancient Indian coins; this ‘rare-to-see’ symbol on the coin is ‘Temple’. It is believed that the initial temples were made up of wood, mud and perishable material so there are no traces of the early temples in India. However, archaeologically speaking the beginning of