Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

  If you are interested in buying coin of Sikkim, this Chepte Coin is in an offer to be bid for an auction at ebay.com.  The information given about the coin is as follows RARE HARD TO FIND SIKKIM COPPER PAISA WITH CLEAR ERROR LEGEND 'Sakar' INSTEAD OF SARKAR . " It is a VS 1941 (AD1884) very hard to find RARE chepte (flat) copper paisa of Sikkim now in India. Obverse has clear three line legend 'Sri Sri Sri Sikkim Sakar' instead of 'Sarkar'. Reverse has 'Sri Sri Sri Sikkim Pati Maharaj' lightly visible. "

It is more or less a forgotten part of the development process of the then-small Himalayan kingdom, Sikkim . The introduction of the coinage system in Sikkim ceased the way it started. A study of the coinage system of Sikkim sheds light on the socio-economic and political history of the then-small state. The coins of Sikkim ended the way they appeared; they came from nowhere, and finally, they got lost out in the darkness. A handful of people around Sikkim and in the districts of Darjeeling now have these rare items in their collections. The coin of Sikkim is much sought after by numismatists interested in countries that no longer exist today. Before the British invasion of the land of Sikkim, the capital revenue system was never heard. Sikkim, being an agricultural foreground, had some parts of food grains given to the king as tax. Trade was carried out where things were exchanged between individuals. This system was prevalent even in the mid-19th century; oranges were exchan...