March 2, 2017
OVER 40
gold-coloured coins with different designs have recently been discovered by a
local woman in Kyaukpyu Township in Rakhine State, according to residents.
Daw Ma Shwe Kyi
found 41 coins buried in the ground while she was digging the soil to collect
white yams around Theiktaunggyi Mountain near Kanpyinsu Ward in Sanae Town in
February. Her spouse, U Maung Khin Shwe, thinks that the coins were made from
the time of the Arakanese Kingdom, as he found words written in the Arakanese
language on the surface of the coins. The couple wishes to give the coins to
the Department of Archaeology National Museum and Library in MraukU Township to
see if they could receive an appropriate amount of money for them.
U San Tun Shwe,
a town elder, shared his knowledge of history and said some Arakanese concealed
their valuables such asa gold jewelry, coins and Buddha statues in the earth
when they abandoned their residences during battles in 1784, when the Arakanese
Kingdom was conquered by the Bodaw U Waing, the sixth king of the Konbaung
Dynasty of Myanmar, after which Rakhine became part of the Konbaung kingdom of
Myanmar.
Arakan has a
5,000-year-old language and a rich culture, the elderly added.
Ref; The Global
New Light of Myanmar
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