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00:00You must have seen many types of coins, coins of many kings and emperors, but we will show you a coin which can be said to be the oldest coin in the world.
00:11And you are going to see a collection of such coins today.
00:16And we have with us the director of Ashwani Sol Sansan, R. C. Thakur.
00:21Sir, the collection that you have put up, how many old coins are there? Which is the oldest coin?
00:27The oldest coin is the Ahad coin, which is 2500 years old.
00:31But for giving and giving, the first use of Nishka is called the Vedic coin.
00:36We have also put up a picture of that here and they have also put up a related one here.
00:40The oldest coins of India and the world are called the Ahad coins of India.
00:44Because they were made by making a panch or ahad, that is why their name became Ahad coins.
00:49And it went from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and from Afghanistan to the whole country.
00:56These were the coins of the Magad and Maurya dynasties.
00:59And these coins are also called the Sarvadeshi Ahad coins because they used to be used in the whole country.
01:03And these used to be of Rajat hand.
01:06After that, there were also coins of Tamrat hand.
01:09And in this, there are such coins which are mentioned in Kautel's Arthashastra, which are even smaller than the Moong Dal.
01:16And those coins, there are also figures on them.
01:19Those are also 2500 years old coins.
01:21These are such important coins of our country.
01:23We are exhibiting them in this exhibition.
01:26Along with that, the Ahad coins of Ujjain.
01:29On those Ahad coins, if a deity has come before a statue, then he has come on coins.
01:36So, this Ahad coin has this Dandhari Shiva in it.
01:39So, before the statue of Shiva was made, Shiva was thrown on the coins.
01:44We get proofs of this in the Madhya Shastra.
01:47Here, on these coins, according to the religion of the king, the figures of such deities, or religious symbols,
01:58whether it is related to Vaishnavism, whether it is related to Guru or Shiva,
02:03Nandi used to be inscribed on his coins.
02:06Coins also used to work as communication in our country.
02:09When we did not have radio, telephone, newspaper,
02:13then the messages sent to the whole country were sent through coins.
02:17The message of water conservation, the message of protection of forests,
02:22the message of saving water, the message of always flowing rivers,
02:27all these messages were explained to us through coins.
02:30Because even an illiterate person can understand through the signs,
02:36the same language has been used on these coins, the same pictures have been used.
02:40So, if the king had a son, then special types of coins would be used.
02:46If Chandragupta got married in the Lichchavi dynasty,
02:49then he wrote the coin and said that there is no heir in Lichchavi.
02:54So, the power of that dynasty also came to Chandragupta.
02:57So, through the means of coins, all the national information used to reach the people of our country.
03:03Which metals were used to make the coins of that time?
03:08And if we talk about the oldest coins, then which coins are present in your collection?
03:15The oldest is called Ahat Mudra, which was made of silver metals.
03:20And after that, in the second century, gold coins were also made in our country.
03:27Roman coins, Kushan coins, Chandragupta coins, etc.
03:32We call the gold coins of Gupta Kaal as gold Kaal because we get thousands of types of gold coins.
03:39So, when a person got knowledge of metals, then first of all silver coins were installed in our country.
03:45Later, gold coins of glass, brass, lead, tin were also made.
03:51All types of metals coins were made.
03:54Sir, the gold coins that you have, what is the speciality of it and where did they come from?
04:05These gold coins, the way they have been made, they are almost of pure gold.
04:14And on special occasions, like there is a type of coin in Ashram.
04:18So, when Samudra Gupta made a yajna in Ashram, then to donate to those who were in need,
04:23he made a yajna in Ashram.
04:26That yajna is standing on Pithika, and below it is written Si.
04:29In Brahmi, Si means Siddhi.
04:31And this yajna was made so that the whole country gets to know through these coins
04:35that Samudra Gupta has made a successful yajna in Ashram.
04:41Then this is a type of coin of Raja Rani, of Chandragupta Pratham.
04:44In this, the first proof of Raja Rani being a Mang is found in our country,
04:48around 1700-1800 years ago, from the coin of Chandragupta Pratham.
04:54Like this is a coin of Jahangir.
04:57So, even though Jahangir was a Muslim scholar,
05:00he made a coin on 12 signs.
05:03This is a coin made on Si sign.
05:05In his Atma Katha, Jahangir writes,
05:09I have made a coin on the Sun sign,
05:14but I have not done this with anyone's opinion, but with my heart.
05:18So, even though Jahangir was a Muslim scholar, he made a coin on 12 signs.
05:25If we talk about your total collection,
05:28how much is the total collection of coins,
05:31and how did this collection start?
05:36Sir, I have a total collection of more than 300,000 coins.
05:40150 children have completed their Ph.D. from us.
05:43Since I am 85 years old,
05:46I have been collecting coins for 60 years.
05:50Before that, my father and grandfather's coins are also in our collection.
05:54And in Kolkata, there was a procession,
05:56which was held 150 years ago by my great-grandfather.
05:59The proof of that is also present with us.
06:01So, you can say that the collection has been going on for 150 years.
06:05Yes, sir.
06:06This has been going on for 150 years,
06:08and we have found many new types of coins.
06:10For example, Lord Ram's Ankan is on all the coins.
06:13Ram, Lakshmana and Sita are all on their Ankan.
06:15Ram is standing on Ramgupta's coins with a bow.
06:18And this was first read by Dr. Vagankar,
06:21that people believed in Ram even during Ramgupta's time,
06:25and he made Ram's Ankan on his coins.
06:27He was the first to classify those coins,
06:29which we have displayed here.
06:31They are also in our collection.
06:33How many years ago?
06:34Ramgupta's coins are at least 1500 years old.
06:38And we have found a seal from Pakistan,
06:40which we have displayed here.
06:42Its picture and description,
06:44that 1700 years ago,
06:45we found a seal with Ram and Sita written on it.
06:49And there are many,
06:51Ram, Lakshmana and Sita are walking on our 2500-year-old coins.
06:55So, people say that we need evidence.
06:57The Greek scholar,
06:59has made Krishna and Balram on his coins.
07:02And Balram is the one who has taken the solution of the puzzle.
07:05This is 2100 years ago.
07:06Vasudev has written on the coins.
07:08So, the antiquity of our Indian religion,
07:10and its depth,
07:11we get a chance to study it through the coins.
07:14And we get clear evidence of it.
07:16So, definitely,
07:18not only these ancient coins,
07:22but they also tell us about our economic system,
07:26and its management system.
07:28And they also tell us,
07:29how rich our history has been.
07:32With cameraman Faizan,
07:34Brijant Pateria, Bhopal.