BOOK REVIEW: THE EARLY COINS OF MYANMAR

I was surprised to see The Early Coins of Myanmar (Burma), Messengers from the Past book appear in The Esylum, that Bob Leonard showed to you. I bought my copy at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in the Siam Paragon Shopping Mall in Bangkok shortly after it was published in 2012. It is one of the best bookstores in East Asia!

This numismatic book is not well known but it should be because it is a fantastic piece of work. It convinced me that if I ever produce a catalog for Myanmar (Burma) in my format, I should start sometime in the mid-19th century and not go back to day one. There are thousands of coins that are in Myanmar's National Museum and only a small percentage have ever been researched and published. I am not sure I have time to start that research.

The book was published by White Lotus Books in Bangkok. My friend, Ande, is the owner and he can be reached at ande@loxinfo.co.th . The author's daughter, Sophie Mahlo, lives in Berlin and can be reached at heresthethingwelike@gmail.com I believe you can still buy the book from either of them. She has been working to sell her father's book so that more numismatists know about it. It is not a low priced book but it is worth every bit of the price if you are interested in Southeast Asian numismatics because these coins circulated far and wide in the region.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: APRIL 29, 2018 : The Chicago Coin Expo (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n17a31.html)

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