My nest egg consists of nothing more than a few containers of coins amassed for pleasure and not intended as a hedge against inflation. While banks have been generous in offering loans and sweetheart deals to some, my hoard of metal currencies accounts for so little that even the help has not been tempted to pinch it. I started amassing loose change a couple of years ago, prying what was kept aside for the dhobiwallah’s daily hisaab and hiding it away from my wife. Not that she could have objected — she was the only one among our family to
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