Sikh Coins Group

Dear Parminder Ji

Thanks a lot of updating this section with your priceless contributions... well, i think SPN can certainly do much better than this to recognize your efforts!!!

May i request you to start a new topic with appropriate headings, whenever you would like to post or introduce a new coin or collection of coins and also attach an image of the coin or collection (minimum 295px Width x 220px Height) alongwith that first post. Starting a new topic everytime will feature your efforts in our SPN spotlight section at the homepage and many other locations across the forum for a maximum exposure to your efforts.
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Dear Aman Ji,

Thank you for your mail above with the kind suggestion of posting/adding future notes on the coins of the Sikh Empire. Your comments are very much appreciated and should I need any assitance I will not hesitate to mail you directly.
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If you or your fellow moderators have any additional information in better promoting the work of the Sikh Coins Group, I would be very happy to hear this.
My personal email is sikhcollector@yahoo.co.uk
Regards
Parminder / Sikh Collector

SIKH COINS GROUP

It is a fact that many Sikhs and non Sikhs around the world are not aware that the Sikh Empire known as Punjab, covered a huge area in the North/West of India. The Punjab used a very fascinating monetary system consisting of coins and tokens in metals of Gold, Silver and Copper.

The coins were produced in denominations of Mohur, Rupee and Paisa covering the major cities of Punjab. These days you can find coins for the cities of Amritsar, Kashmir and Anandghar which are still part of India. Coins were also minted in the cities of Lahore (Capital of the old Punjab), Multan, Peshawar which are in modern day Pakistan. Today distinguished collectors continue to study Sikh coins to attribute them to mint towns and cities which were previously not known.

The sovereign Sikh rule by Maharaja Ranjit Singh began in 1801AD, the Sikhs had established control over Lahore in 1765AD itself and had started minting and circulating their own coins.

Despite the large and very interesting variety of coins which were circulated over a large territory for more than eighty years, the study of Sikh coins - the symbols of Khalsa Sovereignty, has mainly remained neglected.

Here is the link for the Sikh Coins Group (SCG) on Yahoo operated by Gurprit Singh Ji:-
SikhCoins : Coins of the Sikhs - The image below is courtesy of the SCG.
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Rgds Parminder
SIKH COINS GROUP
Understanding history, culture and heritage through numismatics.

This is a copy of a message posted on the SIKH COINS GROUP (SCG) 11/04/10
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Dear Group Members

RE: SIKH PHILOSOPHY NETWORK

Gurprit Ji and I, have been requested to post the activities and work of the
Sikh Coin Group on the pages of the above group. I would like to thank the Group
Leaders of the Sikh Philosophy Network (SPN) for their kind offer.
I hope that members of this group and members of the SPN will be able to share
and join each others groups for better interaction on the numismatics (the
collecting and studying of coins) of the Sikh Empire.

Anyone who would like to know more about the SPN can either join the group or post
messages on this group. We currently have members within this group
who are also members of the SPN.

Here is the link for members who wish to join the group:-
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Rgds Parminder Singh
SIKH COINS GROUP
Understanding history, culture and heritage through numismatics.

This is just brilliant! I look in awe at these coins. The level of intellect needed to be a fine and canny collector is huge. As is the knowledge of history that you must develop.

Dear Narayanjot Kaur Ji,

thank you for your positive words in relation to the numismatic faculty.

I have been collecting coins for about 35 years mainly British coins and found this a good way of learning about history of a particular nation through coins. However about 20 years ago I felt that I needed to learn about Sikh history other than the religious aspect of Sikhism.
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One of the main things for me was to first find out weather the Sikhs ever produced coins and the next was to see if I could acquire them. To my surprise, I found that not many people knew about Sikh coins and I could pick them up at a reasonable price. So I began to purchase coins of the Sikhs and the road to learning the history of the Sikh Empire through Numismatics. For me, this was a fantastic journey in which you actualy learn from the information provided by the coins based on the study of the coins.
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So twenty years on. Here I am a member of the Sikh Coins Group on Yahoo and I have managed to meet some fantastic people like Gurprit Singh Ji. Today I continue to learn about the numismatic of the Sikh Empire from others and the actual coins.

Your message nicely sums up how I should end this message and I do hope others within the SPN will learn from the information on the Sikh Coins Group.

"This is just brilliant! I look in awe at these coins. The level of intellect needed to be a fine and canny collector is huge. As is the knowledge of history that you must develop."

Regards
Parminder (Sikh Collector)

Dear Narayanjot Kaur Ji,

Thank you for your message below. I am pleased to hear that you collect stamps, I also began collecting stamps (philatelic) at the same time as coins (Numismatic). However the stamps took second place when I began to collect coins of the Sikh Empire.

It is a sad fact that one of the concrete evidence of the existence of the Sikh Empire, are the actual coins as they are the seal of the ruling body within a state. Unfortunately for the Sikhs, 90% of the coins are written in the Persian text and therefore the Sikhs are not able to understand them.
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I do hope one day that any Sikh around the world should be able to recognize a coin of the Sikh Empire when they see one. This will help us to preserve our history which, even today is being melted down for value of silver. I have heard many stories where jewellers have melted Sikh rupees for their high silver content for the purpose of producing jewellery. This is a direct erosion of the history of the Sikh Empire and it is being done right under our nose.
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Today, Gurprit Singh Ji, I and members within the Sikh Coins Group hope to change the balance a little at a time to open the eyes of Sikhs and non Sikhs on the evidence of the Sikh Empire. I am very grateful that we now have a space within SPN to continue with this work.

Regards Parminder / Sikh Collector



From: Narayanjot Kaur Ji,
Your message is so touching. I am overwhelmed and so honored that you would share those particular thoughts, and even a slice of your life, with me. I really am in continual awe when you post. The journey you took had to have been as remarkable as any explorer's experience journeying to unknown places. Only you are taking a journey in time and each week it seems you have another discovery to share. I always have that "Wow" feeling -- I mumble, "Let me read that new post by Sikh Coin Collector as soon as I check all the new threads. After the housekeeping of threads is done, then I will really take my time and relish the new chapter in Sikh History." I save stamps, but not with any real knowledge or learning. You are the "other side of that coin." [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/PSC/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif[/IMG]You know what you are doing. Well I hope to have time later this evening to write a short article about your group and post it so that more members are encouraged to join. And even become collectors -- and historians.

I never did write that article Sikh Coin Collector ji. However I did some research that night. There is next to nothing about the interests and talents of coin collectors on the web, but a lot about the history of coin collecting.
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So it might be more enterprising I tried a different approach. We at SPN do want to join you in your enthusiasm, and help raise the level of interest among Sikhs and non Sikhs in the amazing trove of learning gained from knowing about Sikh Coins.