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The Coins and Banknotes of Burma

Author: M. Robinson, L.A. Shaw
ISBN: 9780950705309
Binding: Paperback
Year: 1980
Pages: 173
Weight: 444 grams Price: INR 2060.00

Information about Burmese coins and banknotes has previously been hard to obtain, being scattered in several publications either long since out of print, or not generally available, or inaccessible to a large public through being in Burmese. This book attempts to cover in detail all the issues of Burma and Arakan, concentrating particularly on the period from the sixteenth century to the present. The text is fully illustrated, most of the banknotes being in colour. Much new material from contemporary chronicles, reports and letters is published here for the first time. Two of the chapters deal with Japanese and British World War II banknotes and so it is hoped that the book will also prove useful to collectors of military currency.

George Bruchhof

Georg Bruchhof was born in 1962 at Niederlahnstein/Germany. Educated in Human Sciences he also studied General History and South-Asian History at Heidelberg University. He was fellow of the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin and received a doctorate at Heidelberg University.