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Autobiography of a Coin:
I was born in the mines of Peru. At first, I was a part of silver ore. Then I was shipped to the Mumbai port and from there to the Government Mint, Mumbai where I was put into a hot furnace, melted, and given the shape of a coin with an effigy of an Indian Emblem on one side and ‘One Rupee’ written on the other.
Thus equipped I found in me wonderful mobility to pass from hand to hand.
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Before I was two years old I had travelled into every nook and corner of the country. But at the beginning of my third year, I fell into the hands of a miser who imprisoned me in an iron box where I found myself amidst about five hundred other rupees that lay under the same confinement.
Oh, what a hellish place I was in!
Here I lay in darkness along with my companions. All of us felt suffocated. Even such natural gifts as air and light were denied to us.
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The miser’s box was the worst type of prison. Not that he did not open the box. He opened
