One Hundred Trillion Dollars note of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the currency note with the biggest denomination in the world and notes of 10 billion dinars, five billion dinars and one billion dinars of Yugoslavia, are among the prized possessions of a Transco lineman, D.R.V. Prasada Rao, who is an avid coin and currency note collector.
A Transco lineman at Narayanpet in Mahabubnagar district in Telangana, the 45-year-old Prasada Rao who has the passion of collecting coins, currency notes, displayed the currency notes of Zimbabwe and Yugoslavia in an art exhibition in Kadapa on October 26.
Among the high denomination coins in his collection is a coin of 10,000 shillings of Tanzania and coin of 10,000 lira of Romania. His vast collection includes coins and currency notes from all the 193 member-nations of the United Nations. Mr. Prasada Rao also exhibited coins of Dammidi minted by East India Company in 1830 AD, which is 192nd part of a rupee, the lowest denomination, known as Bottu in Telangana.
Silver one rupee coins of East India Company during the Hyderabad Nizam’s rule and Indo-Portuguese coins of the 18th Century provided a visual treat to visitors to the art exhibition in Kadapa.
Mr. Prasada Rao participated in the Kadapa art exhibition, his first show in Rayalaseema. His collection included 150-year-old palm leaf manuscripts of Vishnu Sahasranamam written in Telugu. He has various stamps of one anna to six paise printed in Nizam Asif Jah rule between 1904 and 1946. He also has a penchant to collect antique iron locks, which open when the key is rotated clockwise several times.
