beawar 183 kms from jaipur a utensil seller in the busy chang gate market of industrial town beawar shyam sundar sadhnani may look like an ordinary trader until you see his collection of coins belonging to ancient medieval and modern periods of both indian and world history collected over a span of 25 yearshaving set a limca book record two year ago for collecting coins from all 193 countries listed in the un list sadhnani has set another milestone by collecting 519 coins issued by the east india company and british empirecoins of 300 princely states in the country along with those from 134 countries that no longer exists from around the world are part of his personal collectionthe list doesnt end here his rare collection of ancientmedieval indian coins starts with kushans or indosasanians of the 3rd century and covers the period up to the prithviraj era of 11th century the latest rare coin comes from brazil which has rio olympics inscribed in the front these limitededition coins were issued during the olympics in 2016his collection which also includes coins from the 2nd century wu zhu dynasty who ruled major parts of presentday china is a rare treat for researchers historians and those interested in numismaticswhile his 22 coins of one rupee value each introduced by 22 mughal emperors between 1526 and 1836 denotes the swing in the mughal rule the britishera coins starting from one penny in 1803 to the last coin in 1937 is a numismatic journey into the british rule in the countrya page from his album on coins from british raja collection of erstwhile princely states is close to his heart he explains that each coin indicates how the country is rich in metallurgical science the gold coin with an image of bird from coorg copper coins from datia eliechpur dhar dewas jaipur jawad gwalior etc are part of his collection these coins which depict lions tigers horses peacocks various languages agriculture etc provide a wide range of information of that periodtoi caught up with him in beawar on monday when he received a copper coin from pune of an african country which merged with kenyasadhnanis interest in coins began 25 years ago when some customers gave him old coins for utensils this turned into a hobby after he collected 20 old coins i started thinking about these coins day and night i would ask everyone about information regarding coins for making this collection of 5000 coins i have travelled to almost every corner of the entire country said sadhnani he is estimated to have spent around rs 25 lakh on these coinsinitially nobody in sadhnanis joint family liked the idea but now everybody supports him his two daughtersinlaw anu sadhnani and nisha sadhnani have become his support system who helps to preserve package and most importantly do research on these coins unaware of its importance sadhnani has never taken them out of his house the only time the albums leave his bedroom