Odisha: Coin Master Devi Prasad Mangaraj's Coin Museum to be Inaugurated Soon

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Report by Odisha Diary bureau, Bhubaneswar: Internationally acclaimed Coin Master Devi Prasad Mangaraj , who set up a first ever private coin museum in Odisha, will formally inaugurated in a glittering ceremony very soon.Devi is son of Dharashree Bindu and PK Mangaraj, studying at KIIT Deemed University constructed the museum in Satya Nagar area of the Temple City.

18 year-old coin master has more than 60 thousand antique coins from 150 different countries and hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. My proposed museum will immensely provide benefit for School students, tourists as well as research scholars having fascination in numismatics.The museum will educate school children about history and rare coins of 12th and 13th century BC..Devi Prasad has collection of rare coins dated 1857.

He has also collection of some 40,000 coins, currency notes of some.130 countries.Earlier, the Dalai Lama, APJ Abdul Kalam, Manmohan Singh,Sonia Gandhi, Naveen Patnaik, JB Patnaik, MC Bhandare, Rameswar Thakur, Murli Manhor Joshi, expressed surprised after seeing coins dating back 18thand 19th century. His collection includes coins belonging to Australia, U.K, France, Japan and the U.S to name a few.

Major attractions of his collection include coins of the East India Company Dated between 1800 A.D to 1810 A.D, the pennies belongingto late 18th and early 19th centuries, Peso of the mid-nineteenth century. It also includes pressed coins of both stone and gold and earthen coins. I with imprints of Lords and animals—stated to over 800 years old. My museum would not be used for my personal gain but it would help thousands, who are keen interest in numerology. Apart from scholars and researchers, thousands of students like me would immensely benefit.

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