Hyderabad: Coin Museum, a numismatists’ joy

Hyderabad: The Coin Museum at the Saifabad Mint Compound situated at Lakdikapul was ushered in onTuesday Wide series of money notes, coin collections, old portable devices made use of to make coins and also various other products like weights are presented in the gallery.

The gallery is being held to memorialize the 75th wedding anniversary of India’s Independence, which is being commemorated under the ‘Azaadi ka Amrit Mohatsav’. The gallery is open for the public with cost-free entrance from June 8 to 13, from 9 am to 5 pm.

The Coin Museum was ushered in by Chairman and also Managing supervisor of the Security Printing and also Minting Corporation of India Ltd, Tripti Patra Ghosh, in the visibility of various other government authorities. The gallery is being curated by Rehan Ahamed, manager of the Calcutta Mint gallery.

In the gallery, individuals obtain a chance to find the background of money. From the age when Indians made use of grains as money, to indigenous copper, meteorites or indigenous iron, gold, silver, and also lead ingots, and also pepper notes.

It houses a varied collection of historic coins from different durations, consisting of the Mughal, Asaf Jahi (Nizam), and also British Indian duration. The coin gallery is just one of the earliest classical times connected withHyderabad’s Mint Compound The rocks on which coins were produced in Hyderabad with portable devices are likewise presented.

In 1903, the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Mahboob Ali Khan created the Mint, which was imitated European mints. Hyderabad was the only citizen State in India to be provided money. The Saifabad Mint Compound is the center of coin minting, with an unique area in Indian background and also a track record for terrific calligraphic high quality.

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