Bhubaneshwar: 15-year-old Deviprasad Mangaraj has attained worldwide fame for his hobby, which has resulted in his possessing the country's largest collection of antique coins.

The teenage numismatist has more than 40 thousand antique coins from 120 different countries and hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records soon.

But it's not just the love for records that keeps him going.

"By collecting such coins I am keen to make people aware of the history, important personalities and the period of those coins," says Mangaraj, who dreams of building a coin museum for children in Bhubaneshwar.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/teenage-coin-c...ss/51720-3.html

You think he's rich enough?

I think Tiff has more coins than this guy.

40,000! Not bad, but should his parent have given him that much pocket money?

That is all he has, and he is getting into the record books? Suffice to say, serious people collecting coins will never tell you how many they have, it is just plain stupid.

i second that!!! if anyone asks i only have two wheat pennies and alot of fake money!!! i bet within a year he will get robbed!!

Hehe... now that I come to think of it, you seem to be right as I've only been at this a few months and I must already have a thou or so... though mostly not top stuff

"I was a Teenage Coin Collector"

Wasn't that a movie which starred Michael Landon?

Anyone here a psychiatrist or something? I'd love to hear what you have to say about this kid.

I don't see much wrong with it personally, there's much weirder things, in fact it's that he's so small-time that we're worried about ...

That's ok, we'll get him to post on omnicoin to see what he has.