The first-ever private coin museum in Odisha set up by internationally-acclaimed Coin Master Devi Prasad Mangaraj will be formally inaugurated very soon.
Eighteen-year-old Devi, son of Dharashree Bindu and PK Mangaraj and as student at the KIIT University, has established the museum in the Satya Nagar area of the city.
He has more than 60,000 antique coins from about 150 countries and hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
He has collection of rare coins dated back to 1857.
Devi’s major attractions of collection include coins of the East India Company dated between 1800 AD and 1810 AD.