Origin, Evolution and Circulation of Foreign Coins in the Indian Ocean

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This volume organised in two parts collects papers presented at Numismatic Workshop on the ‘Origin and Evolution of Coins" in part one, and at the International Seminar on the "Circulation of Foreign Coins in Sri Lanka and Ancient Sea Routes in the Indian Ocean" organised by the Sri Lanka Society for Numismatic Studies and the French Mission of Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka, in Colombo in September 1994, in part two. Papers in this collection are rich in content and diversity and cover a wide range of field from the origin of Chinese and Greek coins to modern bank notes, Islamic coins and coins for presentation and display in early modern Europe and Roman, Chinese, Indian and Islamic coins circulating in Sri Lanka and several other countries of the Indian Ocean. Of special interest are the papers on the early European coins and paper money minted/printed in Europe for circulation in Sri Lanka. Contributions in both parts provide a broad vision of as well as the latest developments in current research in the field and fill gaps in the extant literature on the subject.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Osmund Bopearachchi

Osmund Bopearachchi is a Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-ENS Paris) and also visiting professor and member of the Doctoral School VI of the Paris IV-Sorbonne University. He is a numismatist, historian and archaeologist. oing beyond the traditional approach of simply cataloguning coins, he has made an attempt to link numismatics with the sculptural and pictorial iconography. He has published 9 books and over 150 articles in international journals in addition to editing 6 titles. Some of his important articles, originally written in French, have been translated into English for his volume.