10 Lines on “Autobiography of an Old Coin” Complete Essay, Speech for Class 8, 9, 10, and 12 Students.

10 Lines on “Autobiography of an Old Coin”

1. The good old days when I was a shining one-rupee silver coin will never return.

2. I wish, I could go into circulation once again. I lie today in a little plastic bag, feeling bored and old.

3. I was born in 1925 in the mint. One side had the picture of King George V, and on the other side I had the words ‘One Rupee’.

4. I travelled from the mint to the Government Treasury in a police van. Then I went to a large bank.

5. An English officer then carried me in his purse. After a month, I was handed over to an Indian sepoy, who carried me in his shirt pocket.

6. One day he dropped me on the floor. I rolled over under his cot.

7. There I joined a band of crumpled papers, chocolate friend’s wrappers, broken buttons, lots of dust, and other bits of rubbish till a sweeper swept us off onto the road.

8. I lay there for some days with nobody to take care of me.

9. One day, a little boy picked me up. He looked at me carefully, turning me round and round.

10. Then he took me home and put me in a plastic bag. Since then, I have been lying here, uncared for, wondering when I will be freed again.