The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 25, June 19, 2005, Article 16

COLLECTOR OF INDIAN COINAGE

Numismatics spans the globe. It's nice to come across press
accounts of collectors. One I found this week is from the
Telegraph of Calcutta, India:

"His passion for collecting coins has made him the proud
owner of rare coins. Deepak Kumar Biswas, an engineer, has
turned his childhood passion for coins into a full-time hobby."

"He has more than 40 albums of coins that have been
deciphered while the ones he failed to decipher have been
kept aside. Besides, he has trunk full of coins that are repetitions.
He has kept some of the rare and priceless ones in his locker.
Biswas has coins from more than 130 countries..."

“When I find it difficult to decipher the coins, I go to Calcutta
and consult Numismatics Society of Calcutta."

The avid coin collector has a wide range of coins from the
Princely states of India such as Bhagalpur, Bikaner, Alwar,
Jaipur, Tonk, Gwalior, Jaora, Ratnam, Dhar, Indore,
Hyderabad, Junagarh, Cochin, Travancore, Mysore,
Baroda and Jodhpur. He also has coins that were used
during the British period."

"In Ranchi there are hardly any serious collectors or coin sellers
due to which the art has not developed properly. “The source
of coins are not only friends and relatives but also jewelery
shops, coin sellers and the government mints. Many jewelery
shops keep old coins which they sell but unless they have
proper knowledge they demand outrageous price."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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