Mr. K. Venkatesh, a famous philatelist and numismatist working as a manager at Deccan Fine Chemicals was invited as our Athidhi on 03.08.17 for Grade-4th to 7th students of C.B.S.E Spvn Tuni.
Besides being an engineer, he has the hobbies of collecting coins and stamps. He started collecting coins since his childhood, which he inherited as the inspiration from his maternal grandpa. He achieved many awards and worked as a President from south India for South Asia Numismatics Association. His hobby led him to become a writer and his articles were published in Numismatic Digest. He explained about the origin of coins and spoke about commemorative coins which had images of people on them. Representation of printing is given through symbols on the coins. Children asked queries about the coins and notes of different countries.
Finally, it was an inquisitive programme.
