My Mother's Coin Collection : An Enduring Legacy

 My Mother's Coin Collection : An Enduring Legacy

My mother has a substantial coin collection and often I would add some coins which I would come across. Similarly, other family members also contributed from time to time.

Although , the bulk of the collection is purely through her efforts. 

                                                                        

After marriage, I started my own collection but it is mostly newer coins , especially a series of Rs 10 and Rs 5 coins depicting the various events that happened in the country like the election of different PMs, Asian games, birth and death anniversaries of various famous personalities, etc.

Recently, my mother, graciously handed over her  remarkable  coin collection to me, for which my gratitude knows no bounds.

     

With great enthusiasm, I embarked on the captivating journey of organizing and classifying the coins in the collection, immersing myself in the minute details of each interesting piece.

                                            

                                           

Being a Mathematics teacher, the first thing I noticed was that there were various coins which had different number of sides.

A bit of investigation revealed that although most of the coins were circular, there were coins of various number of sides & my collection had coins with 4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 sides.

My mothers collection does not have it, but there are coins with three sides also.

You can see more about the coins with different sides in the following video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aT1cjwUU_YU?si=-3HbAOktfWO5iu5-

As I immersed myself into this family heirloom, I had an epiphany about it's true value.  Beyond monetary worth, it served as a gateway to a bygone era, offering a glimpse into the rich tapestry of time. As I held each piece in my hand, I felt that I was looking in the past with many stories waiting to be discovered.