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Rare coin commemorating eighty years of TV

Staff Reporter

The coin replicates the first images transmitted in 1926

— Photo: CV Subrahmanyam

The $ 1 coin issued by Cook Islands in 2006 to commemorate 80 years of the invention of TV.

VISAKHAPATNAM: An interesting coin, issued by Cook Islands to commemorate 80 years of television, has been collected by noted numismatist from the city D. Satya Buddu. The $ 1 coin, issued in 2006, bears the bust of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and a small photograph of the inventor of Television John Logie Baird and a moving 3 D image, both inset in the outline of a TV.

The coin replicates the first images transmitted to a TV receiver in 1926.

J.L. Baird demonstrated the world’s first television system to transmit live, moving images in tone graduations to 40 members of the Royal Institution.

The 30-line images were scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.

Mr. Satya Buddu has won four ‘National Record’ of the Limca Book of Records for 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005 for his collection of coins in different categories.

The categories include: coins on famous personalities of 140 countries, animals and birds, birds, flowers, ships. He has received all the four awards recently.

He is also attending the three-day All India Coins exhibition to be held at the Benares Hindu University from December 31.

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