The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 37, August 28, 2005, Article 10

INDIAN NUMISMATIC MUSEUM EXHIBIT OPENS

Tribune India published an article on August 23rd about a
new museum exhibit of Indian coinage:

"Coins have been crucial in deciphering history. In an endeavour
to introduce to the public the significance of coins to the writing
of history, the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh,
has opened a special section on Numismatics.

According to the director of the museum, Mr V.N. Singh, the
350 coins on display are the best of the 4,000 odd coins the
museum has in its collection. “They are representative of the
evolution of Indian coinage from the earliest times”."

"The display begins with an explanation of how coinage originated
from the barter system of ancient times. There are coins from
the earliest silver punch-marked and copper cast coins going
back to 500 BC to 250 BC to those minted during the British
Raj, including the coins minted by the native Indian states from
1715 to 1947.

On display also are Larins, thin bars of fixed weight bent
double and stamped on at one end on both sides. These
were issued by two rulers only — Mohammad Adil Shah
(1627-1657) and Ali Adil Shah (1657-1672) and were
used for mercantile trade."

"Art historian Dr B.N. Goswamy feels that it is important
to constitute a section like this because it is only when you
are exposed to such objects that you feel for them. “If you
can excite a mind, then it serves a purpose and one never
knows what may spark that interest off”."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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