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| Issuer | Government of India Mint |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari, Latin |
| Obverse lettering | भारत INDIA सत्यमेव जयते ₹125 |
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India's commemorative rupee program has issued hundreds of religious and cultural pieces over the past two decades, but the Shahjahanpur Ram Chandra issue is unusually specific in its geographic attribution — honoring a particular temple installation or local tradition rather than a national shrine. Shahjahanpur, a district in western Uttar Pradesh, sits in the broader Awadh cultural zone where Ram devotion has deep institutional roots predating the colonial period.
The .500 fineness is deliberate government policy, not a cost-cutting anomaly — India's commemorative silver issues have used this quaternary alloy standard consistently to keep face-value instruments technically within monetary regulations while controlling silver outlay.