THIRD DAY : Valedictory Session

All the exhibitors were awarded with participation certificate for their exhibits The last session of the last day had two inaugurations, the Souvenir of conference and a beautiful Calendar for the year 2018. Later, both the items were distributed among the members present. Mr. Ravi Shankar Sharma, gave the vote of thanks to all who helped in successful completion of the show, specially to the print and electronic media who very nicely covered the three day programme.

A brief report on the recent activities of our Society

VOL. 17 March, 2018

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NEWS LETTERThe Numismatic Society of CalcuttaRegistered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961

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Quarterly

This year our Society has crossed thirty three years of its existence after being registered as per the Societies Registration Act 1961. Now, it is a well known organization in its own field. The number of its members crossed 400, spread all over India. The society is active and rendering services to its members in a regular manner. Each year we have one annual conference and exhibition at one of the most eminent location, well known to the numismatic world in India. Number of participants are increasing each year. Now all professional numismatists know that last week of December each year is reserved for Kolkata Exhibition.The standard of Exhibits by our individual members are of international level, as far as, the quality of coins in their exhibits are concerned. Every member of the Society is provided with the Journal, Calendar, new quarterly bulletin etc., free of cost, provided they collect it from the society's office. Educational tours are arranged time to time, for members and their guests as per cost to cost basis, at different historical sites, nearby. In the beginning of the society, person like Prof. B.N.Mukherjee accompanied us to 'Chandraketugarh', (only ancient historical site near Kolkata) to explain its importance to us. We seek the member’s advice for more areas of improvement.

-Anup Mitra

The centenary conference of NSI at Goa

Centenary conference of the Numismatic Society of India, Varanasi was held at the Institute Menezes Braganza Hall, Panjim, Goa during 25th to 27th November, 2017, under the aegis of Numismatic Research Institute, Nagpur. Prof. Pranabananda Jos presided over the conference and Sri Jagdish Agarwal acted as local Secretary of the program. Scholars, Numismatists and collector of coins attended the event in good numbers. Shri Anup Mitra, Binoy Kumar Kundu and Smaran Kumar Das attended the program and all of them contributed papers in the field of Numismatics. Apart from the technical paper reading sessions. An exhibition of coins was also there during the event. Professional Numismatists were allotted stalls for selling their numismatic items within the premises. The Valedictory session was presided by Prof. Paresh Nath Singh, President, NSI. In this session it was decided that 101st session of the society will be held at Mumbai. Mr. Binoy Kumar Kundu and Smaran Kumar Das were elected as new council member of the society and shri Anup Mitra, former council member of NSI was elected as member of Legal Sub Committee. Entire program was conducted by local secretary in a nice way and there was no scope of any lapses. The members returned home with heart full of content.

-Smaran Kumar Das

New Commemorative Coin Released : Lord Jagannath's Nabakalebara

President Ram Nath Kovind in presence of his wife Sabitri Kovind, Puri Gajapati Maharaj Dibya Singh Deb, Governor Dr SC Jamir, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Higher Education Minister Ananta Das released commemorative coins in denominations of Rs.1000 and Rs.10 on Lord Jagannath's Nabakalebar festival.

Commemorative coin of Rs 1000 and Rs 10 on the“Lord JagannathNabakalebara - 2015”

Map of Old Goa

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20th Annual Conference & Exhibition of our Society

The most awaited event of the Society was the 20th annual conference and exhibition (“MUDRA UTSAV”) on 22nd , 23rd and 24th December 2017 held at Haldiram Banquet Hall, 24 Ballygunge Park, Kolkata. The 'Mudra Utsav 2017' was arranged for three days where we had packed program each day.

FIRST DAY : Inaugural Session

Prof. Satyabrata Chakraborty, General Secretary of the Asiatic Society inaugurated the program and delivered the inaugural speech. Our Guest of honour Mr. Sayan Bhattacharya, Education Officer of Indian Museum delivered his speech. After the inaugural session, the exhibition of coins by the members who displayed their collections beautifully and systematically, from ancient to modern through the medieval period was also inaugurated. It was a rare occasion for the public to watch such coins which are yet to be displayed in any museums in India. Such a collection of coins in one single exhibition is worth watching when many of the pieces displayed, were very rare and not available in Govt. Museums of the country.

FIRST DAY : Second Session

In the second session two Life time achievement awards were handed over to our Senior Life Members, they were, Mr. Somnath Basu and Mr. Anil Chand JainThe Society is proud of their services they rendered for contributing their knowledge and effort in developing the society as well as numismatics at large.

Ceremonial Inauguration of Mudra Utsav 2017 by Prof. S. Chakraborty, General Secretary Asiatic Society

Mr. Basant Rathi and Mr. Sandhi Mukherjee presenting Life time achievement award to Mr. Somnath Basu

Mr. Sayan Bhattacharya and Mr. Sandhi Mukherjee presenting Life time achievement award to Mr. Anil Chand Jain

SECOND DAY : First Session

The Session was presided over by Dr. Rajesh Purohit, Director, Indian Museum, Kolkata. He delivered an interesting speech on Museum and Numismatics. Mr. Rezwan Razack, was the speaker of the day who delivered a lecture on collection of paper money. His recent publication is the book on Indian Paper money which has already created much interest among the collectors.

Our next speaker was none other than Mr. Jahar Sarkar, IAS (Retd) an indologist, whose deliberation was appreciated by the participants with immense interest.Our Guest of Honour Mr. Sandhi Mukherjee IPS (Retd.) delivered his speech.

SECOND DAY : Second Session

The program of the second session of the second day, was a seminar on 'Demonitization of currency system as during the reign of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq. There were mainly three speakers, Mr. Anup Mitra, Mr. Binoy Kundu and Mr. Somnath Basu, all of whom are the members of our society. The details of this discussion, is expected to be published in our next Journal. The second days, second session was presided over by Dr. Dilip Rajgor.

Next part of the seminar was paper reading session.There were as many as six papers in this session which were read and discussed in the seminar. The participants were Indra Kumar Kathotia, Somnath Basu, Anup Mitra, Binoy Kr. Kundu, Smaran Kr. Das and Kunal ChatterjeeAll the above papers are expected to be published in our coming Journal.

Members of the Society presenting Souvenir to Mr. Jahar Sarkar Mr. Rezwan Razack delivering his speech

Members listening to the interesting paper reading session Dr. Dilip Rajgor, presiding over the paper reading session, readers present were Anup Mitra, Binoy Kr. Kundu and Somnath Basu