Next UK Section Meetings
In the United Kingdom the society usually holds two study days each year
at the British Museum, London, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Oriental Numismatic Society
Study Day British Museum, Saturday 29 September 2018
Programme for ONS meeting at British Museum, Coins and Medals Dept, 11.00am–16.30pm 29 September 2018
10.00–11.00 Coffee
11.00–11.40 Jon Chappell, London School of Economics - The Order of the Double Dragon: the politics of status in remembering the Taiping civil war
11.40–12.15 Maria João Furtado, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal - Imperial Chinese Copper-based Cash Coins: some notes on their composition and microstructure
12.15–13.00 MICHAEL BROOME MEMORIAL LECTURE: Richard Morel, British Library - The forgers' foe: Indian government anti-forgery collaboration 1913–1914*
13.00–14.30 Lunch
14.30–15.00 AGM
15.00–15.30 Ujjwa Brian Saha, Dublin - New coin varieties of Huvishka, Kushan king
15.30–16.00 Girish Sharma, Indore - 'Unidentified ancient Indian coins
16.00–16.30 KEN WIGGINS MEMORIAL LECTURE: Karan Singh, London - Coins of the Traikutakas of western India
16.30–17.00 Tea
If you are interested in presenting a paper then please contact Robert Bracey, robert@kushan.org, or the regional secretary Paramdip Khera, paramdipk@hotmail.com. If you would like to attend, the study day is open to members and non-members of the society, then please also contact Robert or Paramdip.
No lunch is provided but tea & coffee are supplied in the morning and afternoon and we usually ask attendees to contribute one pound to this on the day.
* Forged paper money has always posed problems for monetary authorities globally and India is no exception to this rule. Just prior to the First World War, British India witnessed a significant increase in the circulation of high quality paper money forgeries which had the potential to cause significant upset to South Asia’s monetary system. To combat this problem both the Government of India and the India Office commissioned a detailed research project to ascertain the best security features to use on their paper money for thwarting the forger’s work. In doing so they collaborated with a range of institutions and governments worldwide. This talk will briefly describe the early history and evolution of Indian paper money before detailing some aspects of this research project and considering its lasting impact on Indian banknote design. (Richard Morel)
For details contact Robert, Shailendra or Paramdip:
paramdipk@hotmail.com (UK and Eire secretary)
robert@kushan.org (London meetings)
shailen10@hotmail.com (Oxford meetings)