Thursday, June 1, 2017

Passion Makes Me Want To Collect Antique Indian Coins



No matter how hard you try, a true collector will always find a way to stay in touch with his or her passion. Same is the case with me really. I have been collecting antique Indian coins since I was 10 years old. Today, I am 55 years old and still get as excited as a child when I hear about rare colonial coins of India. There is something about the hobby that keeps you young at heart always. Knowledge and an urge to keep learning new things bring in excitement in your life. The moment you start acting as if you know it all, you are going towards a dead end. I believe that knowledge is infinite; it all depends upon how deep you want to get into the subject. From the day I started reading about antique coins of India, I realised that numismatics is like an ocean that keeps growing bigger when you start exploring the depths of a certain topic. 


Like most other collectors of antique coins India, I too specialise in a certain type of coins called rare coins of British India. Many people think that “colonial coins” means the coins that were issued exclusively by the Britishers in India. The fact is not really true though. India was under the colonial rule of many other European countries like France, Dutch, Portugal etc. Each of them had their own territories and issued coins as well featuring different kinds of designs. Even though I am not someone who is a full time coin collector, I make it a point to devote some time for it at least every day for my hobby. It could be literally as less as half an hour or so, but something makes me want to read about colonial coins even today. 

Money has never been a motivation for me when it comes to collecting rarest coins of India. It has purely been my passion for knowing more and more about colonial coins that keeps me going.


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