For the love of money

A new web show is getting experts on numismatics to reintroduce Indian youth to the joy of our coins, notes and stamps

If you have ever had a vintage coin collection of your own or spent hours poring over someone else’s, you might want to explore Mintage World, the world’s first online museum for coins, stamps and currency notes featuring a collection from around 311 countries. The museum was started by Sushil Kumar Agrawal in 2016 with the intention of sharing information and knowledge with like-minded people.

It has now launched Let’s Talk Mint, an interactive show about the legacy, rarity and origin of coins and currency notes dating back to over 2,500 years. The show is featured on their website and YouTube page Mintage World, and offers interesting  information on Mughal, colonial and princely state coinages like how, for instance, the authenticity of Mughal coins made them more significant for trading purposes  compared to Maratha coins.

It is being presented by Girish Jagshi Veera, an eminent numismatist and auctioneer, and its first episode featured icons in the numismatic field like collector and scholar Pukhraj Surana, Dinesh Mody, founder and chairman of Dinesh Mody Numismatic Museum & Institute and Kishore Jhunjhunwalla, a renowned authority on Indian paper money.

“Let’s Talk Mint is launched with an objective to impart and share unknown facts of India’s rich history. It showcases unique trivia and aspects of different rulers of our country. Viewers can now revisit the history they know from a different perspective.

Girish Jagshi Veera

The series was also launched to educate contemporary India and the world about our vast heritage. We are reintroducing the joy of coins, currency notes and our stamps to the youth” said Agrawal, CEO of Mintage World.

WHAT: Let’s Talk Mint
WHERE: www.mintage world.com

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