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2019 - Guru Nanak

The 7^th release function on the occasion of 550^th Prakash Purab of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji saw coins of Rs 550 denomination being released.

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Guru Nanak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November.

Nanak travelled far and wide teaching people the message of one God who dwells in every one of His creations and constitutes the eternal Truth. He set up a unique spiritual, social, and political platform based on equality, fraternal love, goodness, and virtue.

Nanak's words are registered in the form of 974 poetic hymns in the holy text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, with some of the major prayers being the Japji Sahib, the Asa di Var and the Sidh-Gosht. It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Nanak's sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them.

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https://in.news.yahoo.com/pm-modi-releases-commemorative-coin-080604359.html

Released By The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi after paying obeisance at the Gurudwara Ber Sahib, in Sultanpur Lodhi, Punjab on November 09, 2019.

2019 - Paramahansa Yogananda

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The 6th release function saw the release of a coin commemorating the 125th Birth Anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda

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Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952), or Paramhansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, was an Indian monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions of Indians and westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. He published his book Autobiography of a Yogi in 1946 and it is on HarperSan Francisco's list of the "100 best spiritual books of the 20th Century". The book has been regularly reprinted and is known as "the book that changed the lives of millions.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIP9VJa1vQ

https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=194067

Coins commemorating the 125th Birth Anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda were released by Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman at a function in New Delhi. Also present Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs Shri Anurag Thakur, Secretary Ministry of Culture Shri Arun Goel, Swami Vishwananda Giri, Swami Smaranananda Giri and other monks & devotees.

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Coin of Rs 125

2019 - Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary

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The 4^th release function saw the release of a coin on 150^th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

This would be the 2^nd coin to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi, the first one being in 1969 on occasion of Birth Centenary.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. A pioneer of satyagraha, or resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience—a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence—Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore. In India, he is also called Bapu and officially honoured as the Father of the Nation. His birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on many occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi strove to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi releasing the Silver Coin based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, on the occasion of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on October 02, 2019. The Governor of Gujarat, Shri Acharya Dev Vrat and the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Vijay Rupani are also seen.

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Coin of Rs 150

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Coin of Rs 150

2017 - Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya

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The third release function saw the release of a coin commemorating Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.
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Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and political scientist. He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party.

While he was a student at Sanatan College, Kanpur in 1937, he came into contact with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) through his classmate Baluji Mahashabde. He met the founder of the RSS, K. B. Hedgewar, who engaged with him in an intellectual discussion at one of the shakhas. Sunder Singh Bhandari was also one of his classmates at Kanpur. This gave a fillip to his public life. He dedicated himself to full-time work in the RSS from 1942.

In 1951, when Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Deendayal was seconded to the party by the RSS, tasked with moulding it into a genuine member of the Sangh Parivar. He was appointed as General Secretary of its Uttar Pradesh branch, and later the all-India General Secretary. The acumen and meticulousness shown by Deendayal deeply impressed Syama Prasad Mookerjee and elicited his famous remark:

" If I had two Deendayals, I could transform the political face of India. "

After Mookerjee's death in 1953, the entire burden of nurturing the orphaned organisation and building it up as a nationwide movement fell on the young shoulders of Deendayal. For 15 years, he remained the outfit's general secretary and built it up, brick by brick.

He was assassinated on 11 February 1968 at Mughalsarai in UP, while travelling in a train.

2017 – Shrimad Rajchandra

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A slow start to the calendar year 2017. June saw the first commemorative release function on the occasion of 150 years of Shrimad Rajchandra.

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ShrimadRajchandra, was a prominent Jain poet, philosopher, and scholar. He is best known for his teachings on Jainism and as a spiritual guide of Mahatma Gandhi.

Shrimad Rajchandra was born on November 9, 1867, in Vavania Bandar,Morbi, Gujarat. He started speaking in public at age of 10 and writing articles at 11. He performedShatavdhan (a difficult memory test of memorizing 100 different things at a time) at Sir Framji Cowasji Institute in Mumbai in 1887. The same year, he married to Jhabakben and then engaged in the pearls and diamond business. At the age of 32, he contracted an illness from which he never recovered. He died on April 9, 1901 in Rajkot, Gujarat.

He summarized his interpretation of Jainism in Atma Siddhi, a Gujarati short verse poem written when he was 28 years old. In addition, throughout his life, he wrote 800 letters charting his spiritual journey. In his letters, he mentioned having the memory of several past lives at the age of seven, and in a letter written in 1890, he mentions having achieved self-realization.

He is well known as a spiritual guide of Mahatma Gandhi. They were introduced in Mumbai in 1891 and had various conversations through letters while Gandhi was in South Africa. Gandhi noted his impression of Shrimad Rajchandra in his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, calling Raichandbhai his "guide and helper" and his "refuge… in moments of spiritual crisis". He had advised Gandhi to be patient and to study Hinduism deeply.

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi releasing the commemorative coin on Shrimad Rajchandraji at Sabarmati Ashram, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on June 29, 2017. The Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Vijay Rupani is also seen.

PS: If you notice the initial design of Rs 150 coin, the year is depicted below the bust. In Rs 10 it is on left and right. However in the final released coins both the coins of Rs 150 as well as Rs 10 have the same design.

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2016 - Banaras Hindu University - Hyderabad Mint UNC Set

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This post gives the details of Hyderabad Mint Single Coin UNC set. For Proof Set refer to this Post. For UNC set refer to this link.

The Seventh release of the year saw a commemorative coin on Centenary Year of Banaras Hindu University. This is a first for commemorating a University. There is another one planned this year for Mysore University. The denominations are Rs 100 and Rs 10.

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Banaras Hindu University commonly referred to as BHU; formerly known as Central Hindu College is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Established in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, BHU is one of the largest residential universities in Asia, with over 20,000 students.

The university's main campus spread over 1,300 acres (5.3 km2) was built on land donated by the Kashi Naresh, the hereditary ruler of Banaras. The Banaras Hindu University, South campus, spread over 2,700 acres (11 km2), hosts the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Agriculture Science Centre) and is located in Barkachha in Mirzapur district, about 60 km from Banaras.

BHU is organised into 6 institutes and 14 faculties (streams) and more than 132 departments. Total student enrolment at the university exceeds 30000, and includes students from over 34 nations. It has over 60 hostels for resident students. Several of its colleges, including engineering (IIT-BHU), management (FMS-BHU), science, linguistics, journalism & mass communication, performing arts, law, agriculture (IAS-BHU), medicine (IMS-BHU) and Institute of Environment And Sustainable Development (IESD-BHU), are ranked among the best in India and world.