What do you do when you find an old coin? How do you find out what it’s worth? Where can you sell it? Is it yours to sell, first of all? Archaeologist and numismatist Anand Kothari answers these burning questions at our Online Talk #TreasureTales. He also tells stories of these treasures - from overstruck coins to famine tokens and cash coupons. Come, hear more about coins than just the sound they make in your pocket.

About the speaker:

Anand Kothari completed his Masters in Numismatics and Archaeology from Mumbai University, and is an avid coin collector specialising in ancient and Mughal era coins. He can decipher and read symbols and scripts on coins, and has been asked by IGNCA (Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts), Ministry of Culture, New Delhi, to speak on "How to Retrieve Information from Coins" to Ph.D. students. He has also assisted and guided college students in sourcing coins for their journals and publications. He is a guest lecturer on Numismatics at Mumbai University and has been invited by schools to give lectures on the same.