This is the first full-length study, in English, on coins of the Pallavas who held sway over different areas adjoining the eastern coast of Peninsular India, in different times, roughly from the beginning of fourth century to the end of ninth century A.D. Most of their creations, like monuments scooped out of rocks, brick and mortar temples they built and the tanks they excavated have survived the revages of time and were studied in detail and published. But not the coins issued by the rulers of this dynasty.