The Commercial Coinage of Koch Kingdom: With Notes on the Seals, Medals, Non-Judicial Stamps and Banking

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This book attempts to examine the unexplored aspects of the commercial coins of Koch Kingdom, now known as Cooch Behar, in Northeast India. Presenting a comprehensive elucidation of numismatic details of the commercial coins, it enriches its great worth by adding the notes on seals, medals, non-judicial stamps and banking.

Based on unexplored and unexposed materials, including archival records, it also studies the coins of Islam Shah and the rare coins of Lakshminarayana of Cooch Behar. It provides a window to regional economic history as well. The photographs of legends on the coins make part of the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.K. Bose

S.K. Bose was born in 1939 in Assam, India. While serving his employer, the State Bank of India, he was requested to conduct coin exhibitions at different centres, titled â€˜Story of Moneyâ€™. This re-ignited his childhood fascination for history, historical structures and antique collection which is time translated to a passion to study of coins from North East India. He is now associated with several organizations at the national level devoted to history and numismatics. He has to his credit more than fifty research papers and three books prior to this one.