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Deme Raja Reddy, is a well- known neurosurgeon and a numismatist. Reddy headed the departments of neurosurgery at Osmania medical college, Gandhi medical college and Nizam's institute of medical sciences in Hyderabad. With his medical background he brought in scientific and analytical approach to the study of ancient Indian coins. Reddy is an authority on coins of the Deccan and published more than twenty books on the subject. He wrote more than 100 articles on ancient coins in national and international journals. He was the past president of the south Indian numismatic society of Chennai and that of the numismatic society of India of Varanasi. He was also the past editor of the two journals published by these societies. He was the past president of the Telangana history congress and the president of ancient section of the Andhra Pradesh history congress. He was the recipient of Marremanda Rama Rao medal of e numismatic society of India and P.L. Gupta medal of the south Indian numismatic society. Presently he is the chairman of the numismatic society of India.