Coins and Stamps Exhibition at Udupi.

A Coins and Stamps Exhibition was held at Sri Sharada Mantap,Udupi on 12th and 13th May 2012 on the ocassion of Akhila Bharatiya Stanik Brahman Samavesh - 2012.

The exhibition was held by our members, Mr.M.K.Krishnayya, M.Jayaprakash Rao and K.Vishwesh.

The exhibition was visited by all those who were present including the V.I.P's, M.R.Vasudeva, Director, Air Port Mangalore, Sri. Jayaram Bhat, Chairman and Managing Director, Karnataka Bank, Mangalore, Sri. Pradeep Rao, A.G.M, SBI, Mumbai, Sri K.Prabhakar Rao, Managing Director, MCF, and Sri C.S.Rao, President Sharada Mantap.

Addition of Books to our Library

N.Rajagopal Hebbar, a senior member of our Association has donated few books related to Numismatics. We thank him for his kind donation. These books will be preserved in our Library for the use of our Members. Following is the list of books received.

1. Numismatic Studies – Devendra Handa

2. Studies in Indian Coins and Seals - Devendra Handa

3. Indian Coins – F.J.Rapson

4. Coins of Satraps of the Satavahana Era – Dr.Raja Reddy. P.Suryanarayana Reddy.

5. Uninscribed Coins of Andhra - Dr.Raja Reddy. P.Suryanarayana Reddy.

6. Pictorial Numismatics - Dr.Raja Reddy

7. Kotalinga Coinage of Satavahanas - Dr.Raja Reddy.

8. Coins of Mehgavahana Dynasty of Coastal Andhra - Dr.Raja Reddy.

9. Copper Coins of Bahamanis - Dr.Raja Reddy.

10. Silver Coins of Bahamanis - Dr.Raja Reddy.

11. Coins of Veerapuram Excavations – G.Kamalakar, M.Veerender.

12. Coins of Medieval India – Alexander Cunningham

13. Coins of Ancient India – Alexander Cunningham

14. Studies in Indian Coins – D.C.Sircar

15. The Coins of India – C.J.Brown

16. The Coinage of Northern India – P.C.Roy

17. Indian Numismatic Studies – K.D.Bajpai

18. Current Coins of the World – R.S Yeoman

19. Coins and Medals – Howard Linecar

20. Beginners Guide to Collecting Coins and Paper Money – Coin World

21. A study of Ancient Indian Numismatics – Surendra Kishore C

22. Living without Silver  - John S Deyell

23. The Second supplementary Catalogue of Coins Vol 1 – S.P.Basu

24. A guide to Kusana Coins

25. Manual on Numismatic Gallery – Dr.R.Kannan

26. A Catalogue of Indian Coins in British Museum – Edward James Rapson

27. Nanyagalu (Kannada) Parameshwarilal Gupta

28. A Catalogue of Coins of Ancient India

29. Coins of Mughal Emperors of India – H.Nelson Wright

30. South Indian Coinage – I.K.Sharma

31. South Indian Coins – Sir.T.Desikachari

32. Copper Coins of Adilshahi Dynasty of Bijapur – Mohd.Abdul Wali Khan

33. Copper Coins of Bandshahi Dynasty of Bidar – Mohd.Abdul Wali Khan, 34. Parameshwarilal Gupta

34. Coins of the World – 1750-1850 – William D.Craig

35. Seminar Papers on tribal Coins of Ancient India – Jai Prakash Singh, Nisar Ahmed

36. From Alexander to Kanishka – A.K.Narian

37. History of Coinage and Skanda Gupta Kramaditya - Jai Prakash Singh

 

Workshop and Exhibition at Lamington School, Hubli

A Philatelic Workshop and Exhibition was held at Lamington School, Hubli on 23rd May by the Chalukya Numismatic and Philatelic Society, Hubli.

Our President Mr.Krishnayya and member K.Vishvesh helped them to conduct the Workshop. Sri. Mohan Miskin, President, Sri. Aftab Belri Secretary and Sri. Pramod Deshpande, Treasurer of Chalukya Numismatic and Philatelic Society were present.

A.C Gopal, Jt.Director, Samyukth Karnataka, Sri Hariharan and Sri. Mahaveer Kundur were also present.The Exhibition and Workshop was attended by Young and interested stamp collectors and the Public at large.

Monthly Meeting of July 2012

The monthly meeting of July was held at the Head Post Office, Pandeshwar on 08.07.2012. President welcomed the gathering and briefed the members of new the developments.Mr.Raghava Acharya presented his collection of Coins. (A separate article will be published in this blog on Mr.Raghava Achar's Coins)

As usual the discussion started with developments in the World of Philately and Numismatics. There were not much release of stamps by India Posts recently. Mr. Prabhakar Kamath intimated about new coin release specially the Rs.1000 denomination coin of Brihadeeshwar Temple.

The highlight of the meeting was that all the members enjoyed the Coin exhibition of Mr.Raghava Achar as it was on the historical coins of Mangalore and a big pack of books on Numismatics donated by N.Rajgopal Hebbar, which is a big addition to our library.( The list of books will be published later)

Though it was raining there was a good number of members present and the Philatelic bureau was open for the members. Monthly lucky dip was also held for the Members. There were also many mediapersons present, who have given us a good publicity, for which the Association is thankful to them.  (Look for the links to Meida reports at the end)

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Annual General Body Meeting - 2012

General Body Meeting of our Association was held on 10th June 2011. Mr.Krishnayya, President of our Association welcomed all the members present to start the meeting.The Annual Report was read by The Secretary, Mr.Prabhakar Kamath. Treasurer, Mr.Raghavendra Shenoy presented the Accounts which the was accepted by the members without any objections.

Election of Office Bearers of the year 2012-2014 was announced, As there were no new nominations almost all the Office bearers of the previous term was re-elected, except small changes in the committee members.      ( List of new members is published in this blog as a separate entry)

Chief Guest of the day was the Senior Suptd. of Post Offices, Mr.Chandrashekar who spoke about the plans and ideas to promote Philately in the area, and promised his full support to all our activities. He also asked the members to take help from the Posts in their respective regions and to visit schools and re-initiate the activities of Nehru Stamp Clubs.As he had recently taken Office in Mangalore, he asked all the members to introduce themselves and the members were happy to do so.

Mr.Daniel Montherio, our Senior member and International award winner, who entered his name in the Guinness Book of World Records was honoured by our Association. He was hounered by the traditional way of presenting a shawl and Memento by Senior Suptd. of Post Offices, Mr.Chandrashekar in the presence of all the members.Mr.Daniel who spoke a few words thanked all the members of the Association for their support in all his endeavors. He said that he was still a humble stamp collector and not a great Philatelist and had much more to learn about philately specially from the Seniors who had vast knowledge in this field.

Other matters were discussed and Mr.Krishnayya spoke about the problems in bringing out the magazine in time due to the lack financial help in the form of advertisement and donations, and promised that it would be printed by next month. Mr.Prabhakar Kamath spoke about the sucess of the lucky dip which was started as an activity to raise funds and about the new coin release and bookings.Members were asked to intimate us in case of change in personal information like Address, Phone No. etc.It was also decided to conduct Auctions to raise funds.

There were other general discussions relating to Philately and Numismatics and problems faced by the members. New members were introduced and addition of library books were announced. More than 50 members were present, even though the weather was rainy. Dealers were present and members had a good chance to buy their wants. Refreshments were provided after the meeting.

The meeting concluded with vote of thanks to the Posts for providing us space for our meetings, for the local press who had been providing good support by publishing our activities and all the members and non members who had donated and provided advertisements for our Magazine.