The author, Professor Hla Aung, was born on 8th August, 1923 in a small village in Sedok-taya Township, Magwe Division, Myanmar. When the young boy was about six years old, Hla Aung was sent to the village kindergarten, a government recognized primary school. Being an intelligent and obedient student Hla Aung finished the primary school in four years. Hla Aung’s father, who wanted his son to be educated in English, sent him to the Anglo-Vernacular High School in Salin town, some thirty miles from Tabwinywa where Vernacular Primary School was situated.
          When he finally passed his metrication examination he pursued studies at the Rangoon University. He got his (B.A) degree in 1950 and (B.L) degree in 1952. He applied for and won a Fulbright and Smidth-Mundth Scholarship from the United States Education in for a year’s further study in the U.S.A. The scholarship was tenable at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for a period of one academic year commencing August, 1952.So after completing his Master’s Thesis, which was unanimously approved by the Board of Examiners, Hla Aung left for Massachusetts to join the Harvard Law School in September 1953. After a grueling two-year struggle with the case method or Harvard style of teaching law, Hla Aung came out of Harvard with L.L.M in 1955.Now, he lives at 115, University Avenue Road, Yangon, Myanmar. Recently he issued the book “Law and Justice in Myanmar.” 

          The above silver dollar was given to Siam King Naga-kalo (Rama III) through a diplomat Edmund Robert, by American President Andrew Jackson in 1834, as a present. The first hand owner of the 1804 silver dollar was a Padaung national, living in Kayah State. This coin was handed down to him by the Bombay Burma Company, in 1942 February. He died in 1990 old and full of years. His only be gotten son, U Aung Myaing who suddenly passed away by heart disease in 1995, got the silver dollar. Due to his wife’s negligence and ignorance the lost casket of the coins has not been discovered. Moreover U Aung Myaing’s brother in law, the ignoramus, made a mark on the coin with an axe and defaced the coin. Before U Aung Myaing died it was told that he entrusted the 1804 silver dollar with the 1804 copper dollar to someone he knew and trusted. That person told that the silver and the copper dollar were put into a casket made of crimson morocco and placed them to fit in exactly in the casket. After a long time of U Aung Myaing’s dead his wife related that when her husband died, they put all his belongings, consisting of a sword, a cross-bow, some silver coins and possibly the morocco casket as well, but she was not sure, as she cannot remember every thing that happened during the funeral occasion. So to speak the casket has not been found until today although it has been searching everywhere.
          In July, 2003, that 1804 coin reached to U Aung Myo Naing. In 2004, he entrusted it to U Hla Aung . Hundred years have passed, and it is quite difficult to understand that history without record, and it is beyond comprehension. To sum up, Bombay Burma Company was the renowned one that settled down business in Myanmar. We don’t think the backward tribe such as Padaung would be able to make this exquisite American coin, and also when we examined the 1804 silver dollar , we believe it is a genuine one.