Anybody can start an Indian coin collection (republic India & Commemorative coins) with just 200 Rs change coins available with them.
In this video I will be showing how it can be done easily with very little effort and also learn how to identify the coins mint wise.

There are many ways to start a coin collection ,but I will show you a very easy and practical method with a very small budget of just 100 to 200 Rs or about 3 dollars can start collecting Republic India and commemorative coins. Also I will teach you to identify mints on the coins.
i started my coin collection in 1984 when i was 12 years old and today i have around 18 to 20 thousand coins which belong to Ancient India ,Mughals, Marathas , South Indian Coins, Indian Princely State Coins, British India Coins, Republic India Coins, Commemorative coins, Foreign coins, medals , Tokens are included in them.
I am passionate about a lot of other collectibles and I believe you also can start collecting them like me.

How to start ?
You can start right at your home ,go and search your house for some change of coins and if you don’t have enough of them, get some coins say about worth 200 rs from a grocery store near your house or your locality. That will be enough to start with.
People normally think how can we start a coin collection with some normal looking change that we use every day. Yes but that’s possible, and I will show how that can be done in this video. The value of the coins are in understanding the true intrinsic value as well as the numismatic value of coins that we come across.
First we should separate them according to their face values, like 1 rupee coins, 2 rupee coins, 5 rupee coins,10 rs,20rs etc. After sorting them according to the values ,we will further sort them according to the years on the coins, we will also find some commemorative coins in the lot mostly, so keep them separate as well.
After sorting them year wise, we will sort them according to the mints they were minted .
Mint Marks are special marks of mints on coins issued to identify the place they were minted from ,and they are very easy to be identified.
The four mints that coins are minted from in India are
Bombay mint – a vertical dot below the date
Noida mint – a round dot below the date
Hyderabad mint – A 5 pointed star below the date
Calcutta mint- No mint mark
Also some foreign mints had issued Indian Republic coins so they can be referred to at some online mint mark identification site for Indian coins.
A coin may have a same design and can be issued from different mints ,with just the mint marks visible on them being separate.
Keep the extras aside, just keep one coin variety to start with.
As we are trying see how many different varieties of coins can we get from a lot of normal looking coins.

This is the easiest way to separate and sort coins and find as many varieties as possible in republic India as well as commemorative coins, on an average you can find at least 50 different coins year wise and mint wise ,and also this is the easiest way of starting a coin collection with a very small budget of about 100 to 200 rupees.
Republic India coins are coins that were minted after 1947.
Also make sure that you keep aside the best condition coins for the collection, and if you find a particular coin which is not in a great condition ,you can change that coin when you get a better condition coin in future.
you can keep them in special folders or albums and keep adding the varieties that you don’t have, year wise and mint wise.
would like to hear from the viewer his / her experience if they tried this at home, please share your views in the comments section below and will soon make other videos regarding how to take this collection forward from here.
India has a vast history of coins starting from about 2600 years old, and any one who tried this has taken a first step towards this.
So Congratulations and wish you have a very good collection and keep building them and also learn about the other periods of coinage in India.
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