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Beware of … Sugarcane Juice
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The
forthcoming auction of the
1. Silver coin of Chandragupta II is dated Saka 329 (Lot No. 675).
Other dates of Chandragupta II are Gupta Era 87 and 89. Unfortunately, the coin
with date Saka 329 is not illustrated.
2. Gold fractional Tanka weighing 1.1 g of Bahadur Shah, the
Sultan of Gujarat, dated AH 943 (Lot No. 746). The existence of such a coin was
listed by
3. Gold Mohur of Shah Jahan of Burhanpur mint
with the additional legend, khallada allah mulkahu
in obverse margin (Lot No. 781). This is the first gold mohur of this type
though such coins in silver are reported quite often.
4. ½ Pagoda
of Guti Mint issued by the Marathas in the name of
Shah Alam II (Lot No. 843).
5. Silver Nazarana 5-Rupee coin of
6. Sikh ½
Rupee of Anandgarh Mint, VS 1841, 5.48 g (Lot
No. 899).
7. Silver Rupee
of Jagannathpur Mint issued in the name of
Alamgir II and issued by the Dutch East India Company. The coin is dated AH
1179, Regnal Year 10, which makes it the earliest known date on these rare
coins (
Founded
in A.D. 770, the Viking trading
As
noted earlier in the eBulletin No. 2,
Tsunami has unraveled a tiny archaeological gift to India, some remarkable
rock-cut shrines in Mamallapuram (earlier Mahabalipuram), the ancient
world-famous temple township in coastal Tamil Nadu, some 50 km SW of Chennai.
A team
of the Archaeological Survey of India under Dr. Alok Tripathy of Underwater
Archaeology Wing, has just finished their excavations on the surface and also
marine explorations and come up with some interesting findings. The receding
waters have reveled on the beach close to the township’s famous
a. Zahir ud din
Muhammad Babur – A Numismatic Study by Aman
The book is
exclusively distributed in
b. Numismatic
Digest, vols. 27-28, 2003-2004, edited by Amiteshwar Jha and Sanjay
Garg is published recently. It has 16
research articles.
c. Winter 2005
issue of ONS Newsletter, No. 182 has following articles on South Asian Coins: Michael Fedorov: Money Circulation of
Khwarezm in the Ancient Period; Nicholas
Rhodes & Alexander Lissanevitch:
A New Sho-kang from Tibet; Dr.
Paul Stevens: The Coins of the Bombay Presidency – The Mints of the
Northern District; and Dr. Shailendra
Bhanadare: The ‘Anjengo’ Coinage of Bombay Mint: Lost and Found.
d. Autographs
Collecting for the Beginners by S
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a. Keshalankara
– A Romantic Tradition: Hair Ornaments of
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu
Sangrhalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India) and the Museum
Society of Bombay have organized a unique exhibition called Keshalankara – A Romantic Tradition: Hair Ornaments of India from the collections of Veena
Shroff and the Museum at the Premchand Roychand Gallery, Museum from 3rd
May to 19th June 2005. The exhibition covers hair ornaments from
classical as well as folk and tribal traditions. These traditions are over
three thousand years old as will be seen from the sculptural evidences
displayed along with the ornaments.
b. Sri
Rajamudra: Coins, Coinage and Mints
An exhibition of Coins, Coinage
and Mints from the collection of Shri & Smt. P. T. Munshaw was organized at
the
c. New Website on Numismatics
Thakkar
Numismatic and Art Foundation,
d.
The next Baldwin’s auction of
ancient coins, British coins and tokens; Russian, Scandinavian, Indian, Islamic
and other foreign coins and banknotes will be held at
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Refiner and Purifier of Silver…
Subject: Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver”
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible Study Group and they wondered what this
statement meant about the character and nature of God.
One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get
back to the group at their next Bible Study.
That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him
at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond
her curiosity about the process of refining silver.
As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let
it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver
in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest so as to burn away all
the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought
again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.”
She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of
the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.
The man answered that he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he
had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the
silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, “How do you
know when the silver is fully refined?”
The silversmith smiled at her and answered, “Oh, that's easy -- when I see my
image in it.”
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on
you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.
And, whatever you are going through, you will be a better person in the end…
Remain Blessed,
Amen!
Life is
tough,
but I'm
tougher…
A small boy, the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets.
The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule.
He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India, single-handedly.
Well, he is
none other than Dr.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the President of
10. Humor
in Place Name Reforms …
Recently, the Government of Maharashtra renamed the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. So now we have that in addition to the Chhatrapti Shivaji Terminus, the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Domestic Airport, and who knows what else?
If this trend continues, we may reasonably speculate what it will be like in AD 2050: Read on …
“Hi,
I am 14 years old and my name is Chhatrapati Shivaji. My father's name is
Chhatrapati Shivaji. All other names
have long since been outlawed. I wake up everyday at 6:30 am CST (Chhatrapati
Standard Time) to go to my school: Chhatrapati
Shivaji Vidyalaya. It was a little confusing getting there at first,
because all schools in the city have the same name. But once I got directions,
it was fine. All I have to do is go down Chhatrapati
Shivaji Road, make a left turn at Chhatrapati
Shivaji Chowk, go straight till Chhatrapati
Shivaji Marg, until I reach Chhatrapati
Shivaji School. Once I got lost and found myself at Chhatrapati Shivaji Chowk instead of
Silly mistake, when I think about it. My class teacher, Mr. C. Shivaji, is a good teacher. Today he asked, ‘Chhatrapati, can you answer that
question?’ The whole class stood up to answer. Yesterday our school, C. S. Vidyalaya, had a cricket match
with our rival school, C. S. Vidyalaya.
Of course, we don't know which school won. But that's okay. This weekend, my
family and I will go to the zoo, Chhatrapati
Shivaji Pranibaugh, and see all the, um... plants. There used to be animals
there, but they're all dead now. They say it was due to ‘negligence’ because
the keepers were all running for government, one of them for the office of Prime Chhatrapati. We have two main
telecommunication companies, CSNL and
CSNL. One provides telephone services
and the other provides broadband MultiNet access via the Chhatrapati Shivaji Satellite. Sometimes we don't know whether
we're accessing a website or whether Chhatrapati
Shivaji (our grand-father) is calling up.
I'll go online later to see if I
have any new e-mail at chhatrapati@chhatrapatishivaji.cs
Foreigners are often confused which Paanch
Sitaara Vishramgraha (5-Star Hotel) to stay in, because they all
have the same names. I think the Chhatrapati
Shivaji Vishramgraha is pretty good, and one should stay there rather than
the Chhatrapati Shivaji Vishramgraha
or the Chhatrapati Shivaji Vishramgraha.
During the weekend, my family and I might go to the beach, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Samudrakinara, and
after that we may go see a film. All foreign films are now dubbed in Indian
languages. I go to sleep pretty early, after watching the popular TV show Kaun Banega Chhatrapati. Tomorrow will
be another day... I think.
Sometimes, in whispers, I hear stories told of a mythical age long ago, when places and things had different names. Stories of a time when each thing had its own name and of a concept called ‘heterogeneity’. It's a legend, only half-believed, of a time when places and things had a history, and the city an identity!
Date: 22 November, 750 AC (After Chhatrapati)
Place: Chhatrapati Shivaji
Mahanagar (Formerly
11. Did you Know?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Did you have any problems reading these lines? Ah!
12. Beware of …
Had a glass of
Sugarcane Juice this Summer?
A friend whose dad works for the government health inspection passed on this info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc.
They found sugarcane juice has the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit. Hence, these guys had to find out why. They went around all sugarcane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugarcane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't find the problem.
One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugarcanes will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as sugarcanes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots, cat's urine, etc, will all be absorbed??
Now, whenever I eat at a hawker centre, I would warn all my friends about this and of course I stopped drinking my favorite sugarcane juice.
A woman, who loved sugarcane juice, was pregnant. She was always drinking sugarcane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the foetus was already like 6 or 7 months old. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of sudden the foetus had died inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine. Large traces of it. While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to babies, what more a foetus? So they tried to determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the foetus. This meant that it had to be digested by the mother, right?
And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since these sugarcane juice stall holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugarcanes or near those sugarcanes.
So think carefully the next time you order a glass of your favorite sugarcane juice…
13. Quotes on Money
1. Make Lots of Money,
2. Enjoy the Work,
3. Operate Within the Law…
Well, Choose Any 2
(Submitted by Amol N. Banker, ancientcoinsofindia@yahooco.in)
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