Liakat's hobby
Liakat Ali, 60, of Porra village in Manikganj Municipality has collected more than three thousand historical metal coins and paper currency of 170 countries.
He has also collected tickets of lotteries approved by the government of Bangladesh during the last 44 years.
Liakat said he was owner of a grocery and his three sons looked after the business. The collection was his life, he said, adding that he never leaves the house for fear that the coins would get stolen.
Liakat told this correspondent that he had a dream of traveling around the world, but he could not due to financial problem, adding that he learns about the world by collecting the coins and notes of different countries.
Collection of the metal coins and paper notes has become an addiction for him, and family members made fun of him for that. He travelled to different areas of the country to collect the coins and notes, spending a lot of money, Liakat said, adding that he bought a copper coin of one paisa for Tk 1,000.
“I had kept my hobby of collecting coins and notes secret for a long time, but my relatives, friends and well-wishers found out about it. I got many coins and notes from them. They collected these for me from home and abroad,” he said.
He has a dream of collecting coins and notes of all the countries of the world and showing them in an exhibition to the new generation, he said, adding that he hoped his dream will be fulfilled within one or two years.
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