Heads, He Wins A 12-year-old numismatist has 18,000 coins in his collection, some of them 2,300 years old

From: India Today | Date: October 10, 2005| Author: Farzand Ahmed | Copyright information

Devi Prasad Mangaraj talks like a historian at 12. He has a unique ambition too: he wants to trace when, where, how and in what form coins first appeared on earth. He has already covered a lot of ground towards his goal and has about 18,000 coins of copper, silver, gold and other metals, some of which date back to 2,300 years.

This Class VI student of Bhubaneswar, son of Oriya filmmaker P.K. Mangaraj, is considered India's youngest numismatist and his collection is truly a treasure. He...

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