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10 Rupees Birth Centenary of Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 Rupees |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari / Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a portrait of M.S. Subbulakshmi depicted in three-quarter right-facing profile, shown holding a microphone, rendered in a classical commemorative style within the inner disc. The dates '1916 - 2016' flank the portrait vertically in the field. The legend 'डॉ.एम.एस.सुब्बुलक्ष्मी की जन्मशती' is inscribed in Devanagari script in the upper portion of the outer ring, while 'BIRTH CENTENARY OF DR. M.S. SUBBULAKSHMI' appears along the lower arc of the outer ring in Latin script. |
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M.S. Subbulakshmi was the first musician ever awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, receiving it in 1998 — a distinction that took the country's awards establishment over four decades after independence to extend to a classical performer. The Reserve Bank of India has issued commemorative circulation strikes honoring cultural figures with some regularity since the 1960s, but Subbulakshmi's centenary coin reached distribution in the same year her Google Doodle marked what would have been her hundredth birthday, September 16, 2016 — the coin itself postdating the centenary by several months.