The International Numismata Orientalia
Phayre, Arthur P. Excerpt from The International Numismata Orientalia: Coins of Arakan, of Pegu, and of BurmaCoined money was not used in ancient times in the countries of Indo China. In Arakan coins were first struck for the purposes of currency, and as a declaratory act of sovereignty, towards the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth, century of the Christian era. The system was then adopted from that existing in Bengal under the Muhammad...