Panish, Charles K.
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Charles K. Panish (1907-1995) of Westport, Connecticut, was an expert on coins of South Asia. He volunteered his services to the American Numismatic Society (ANS) for over three decades, performing work for years as a virtual acting curator, attributing, rearranging, and relabeling over half of the South Asian coins, particularly in the collection of Indian States coins and those of the Himalayan states: Tibet, Nepal, Assam, and Ladakh. He became a member of ANS in 1951 and in 1960 joined the Committee on Oriental Coins. He was appointed chair of that committee in 1961, the same year he was elected an ANS fellow. He was also a major benefactor, donating 9,682 coins to ANS over the course of several decades, beginning in 1959.
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1. Charles K. Panish papers
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- Correspondence, notes, articles, booklets, article reprints, and background information about various regions and coins of the world, but mostly pertaining to Panish’s work researching, publishing, and collecting in the area of South Asian coins.
2. Charles K. Panish correspondence with Enrico Manara
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- Two letters between Charles K. Panish and Enrico Manara discussing corrections to a numismatic publication.
3. Photograph of a meeting of the ANS Standing Committee on Islamic and South Asian Coins
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- Photograph of a meeting held on April 3, 1978, of the ANS Standing Committee on Islamic and South Asian Coins held in the Harry W. Bass Room at the ANS Audubon Terrace headquarters building. Members included (from left to right): Michael L. Bates; Charles K. Panish; Kenneth M. MacKenzie; Raymond J. Herbert, Research Associate, National Numismatic Collection, Smithsonian Institution; and John J. Slocum, Committee Chair.
