Nagpur University first to award PhD in numismatics

Numismatics is a hobby practised with passion by many. Varsha Sharma has taken her passion to another level, by acquiring a PhD in numismatics. Her subject of research was copper punch-marked coins, a topic on which Sharma said, "There were hardly any books."

Varsha is now teaching at Nagpur University. "Now, I take my coins to show my students and that helps them a lot. Because till now they could only imagine how those coins would look, now they see them and it helps the learning process," she says.