He mints antiquity from errors

It is difficult to find coins with errors now, but our ancestors who had committed mistakes while minting coins circulated them despite the faults.  “Only a person who works makes mistakes and not the ones who never worked," justifies numismatist, Kumble Radhakrishna, who has in his possession 300 such faulty coins.

This 57-year-old banker from Corporation Bank is passionate about antique coins and besides the erroneous coins, has over 5000 coins from 6th Century BC to 1950 AD in his collection.  "I have done everything possible in convincing people to sell coins to me.  I have spent more than half my salary in purchasing these coins since 1988," he says.
 
Thanks to his knowledge about old coins and its history, he was invited by the Reserve Bank of India to help them set up the RBI Monetary Museum.  He worked in RBI from 1997 to 2001 and was instrumental in convincing some well known coin collectors to sell their coins to the RBI Monetary Museum.  The museum was set up in November 2004 which was inaugurated by then president of India APJ Abdul Kalam. 

Radhakrishna has also written three articles on coins which were published in RBI House Journal. He wrote about ‘Rare Coins-Personal Experiences in the field’, second one on ‘Power of Money’ about how a rich man named Sulpicionos could purchase the throne of Rome and remained an emperor by paying silver coins worth less than a few crores of rupees.

The third article was on the arithmetical error committed by Diogenious where he missed six years while calculating, which resulted in six years of mistake in our reckoning of dates. For example, this year should have been 2016 instead of 2010.