Here I was visiting Numismatics Exhibition cum sale organized by Todywalla Auctions. While i was a witness to a whole bunch of people who are trying to haggle around with their valuable wears of stamps, coins, foreign currency notes and some even bought old antiques, medals and souvenirs. It was nothing less than a market, but the only discussion was how valuable was the coin? There were some people sitting with a magnifying glass trying to gauge the authenticity of the era that the coin belonged to, there were who were comparing to published books and then there were many others who asked for "1/2 Rupee side facing King Edward, 1939, Calcutta Mint" and then me who was completely enamored by the whole scene of they way people collect coins, stamps and more so preserve them. They were some rare coins that have been kept in sealed air tight plastic customized bags. So much care, people take!!
Coming back to the auction, it was being held in Tejpal Hall which is actually a place where theater artists perform. As usually, there are not many car parking areas near by. There is a canteen also provided for popcorn and refreshments. As an audience you need to be very mum cause this is a theater, but in the case of auction people were chatting, discussing, or working on laptops, cross referencing the values of the coins on eBay, before making his bid. Then there was one guy who was actually talking on the phone and was stopped by the usher, then again conveyor butt in saying that this is an auction, one can speak on the phone. (TwitPic)
After going through all the stalls and wanting to buy everything, but of course neither the wallet nor the brains wanted anything, confused even further, what to buy. So after the third round, i ended buying notes of countries like Zaire, Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago. The other exciting was meeting Dinesh Modi, who is actually the the guy responsible for donating half his collection to a museum of Mumbai University and initiating the a course in Numismatics under the same Bachelor of Arts. Overall, awesome experience, and i was glad that Daksh could also join me, to witness this auction all live.
Coming back to the auction, it was being held in Tejpal Hall which is actually a place where theater artists perform. As usually, there are not many car parking areas near by. There is a canteen also provided for popcorn and refreshments. As an audience you need to be very mum cause this is a theater, but in the case of auction people were chatting, discussing, or working on laptops, cross referencing the values of the coins on eBay, before making his bid. Then there was one guy who was actually talking on the phone and was stopped by the usher, then again conveyor butt in saying that this is an auction, one can speak on the phone. (TwitPic)
After going through all the stalls and wanting to buy everything, but of course neither the wallet nor the brains wanted anything, confused even further, what to buy. So after the third round, i ended buying notes of countries like Zaire, Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago. The other exciting was meeting Dinesh Modi, who is actually the the guy responsible for donating half his collection to a museum of Mumbai University and initiating the a course in Numismatics under the same Bachelor of Arts. Overall, awesome experience, and i was glad that Daksh could also join me, to witness this auction all live.
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