Shalini Handge (4), the girl, demanded something to eat; her mother gave her a ten ruppe coin and asked her to buy something from a nearby shop, said P R Dhokane, in-charge, Nashik Road police station.
The girl, while playing with the coin, swallowed it accidentally, he said.
Her parents first rushed her to a local hospital and then to a super-speciality hospital, but she died during treatment, the officer said.
Police have registered a case of accidental death.
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