An Officer of the Indian Police Service. Andrew Verity Liddle retired as the Director General of The Central Reserve Police Force in September 1996. He has been collecting and studying Mughal coins for several decades, with special focus on the coins of the Grand Mughals. Both his earlier books (Coins of Jahangir & Coinage of Akbar) have been received well by the Mughal numismatic fraternity all over the world and continue to be quoted extensively in auction catalogues