Jamshedpur, Dec. 15: Curtains came down on three-day of exhibition on numismatics –Jamcoin 2015, the coin exhibition today.
Organised by the Coin Collector’s Club, Jamshedpur, the three-day exhibition on numismatics apart from exhibiting coins from various centuries also generated interests about the hobby and coin making to students of various participating schools at the Red Cross Bhawan in Sakchi.
About 20 students learnt the process of making coins in various techniques. Ravi Shankar Sharma, a numismatist from Kolkata who participated in Jamcoin taught children how coins were made in various eras.
Sharma who carried all his equipment explained that initially punch marked technique was used to make bend bar coins, the first ever coins in Indian history that were shapeless and was introduced during the Gandhara Janpada that stretched from the north west of Afghanistan to parts of Punjab during sixth century BC.
“The exhibition witnessed overwhelming response. The Coin Club in the city started as a hobby and now is known across the country. We have some of the finest collection. This is the only private coin club in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Through the exhibition, we wanted to involve more people of the city who otherwise are unknown about the history and development of the currencies especially coins,” said P. Babu Rao, general secretary of the Coin Collector’s Club.
A total of 17 dealers and four numismatists from different parts of India took part in it. Dealers came from Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Jharkhand.
Established in 1994, the club is the only organisation in the state working for the promotion of numismatics.
“City-based coin collector’s club has proved its merit by successfully organising exhibition for last one decade and its eagerness to venture into the auction. The exhibition shall see a display of rare collection of coins from ancient era, Moghul rule, Maratha, Medieval and pre-independence period,� said another member.
Officials of the club further went on to say that the display will have 100 frames depicting ancient Mediaval, Moghul, pre and post independence, modern coinage and paper money.
Rare coin collectors from across India, including Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Pune, Indore and Kolkata also participated with their coins collection in the exhibition.
