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2 Rupees 150 Years of Indian Railways
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 2 Rupees |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a whimsical depiction of Bholu the Guard, the official mascot of Indian Railways for its 150th anniversary celebrations, rendered as an anthropomorphic elephant dressed in a railway guard's uniform and holding a signal lantern aloft in his raised trunk. The mascot is centrally positioned in the field with the inscription 'Bholu, The Guard' in Latin script immediately below. The commemorative legend 'Railways' in Latin and 'रेलवे' in Devanagari arcs across the upper periphery, while '150 Glorious Years' in Latin and '150 गौरवपूर्ण वर्ष' in Devanagari are arranged along the left and right margins respectively. The date '2003' and the numeral '150' appear in the lower field, completing the commemorative inscription. |
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| Mintage | 2003 - Calcutta Mint - 2003 - Calcutta Mint; Proof - 2003 * - Hyderabad Mint - 2003 ° - Noida Mint - 2003 ♦ - Mumbai Mint - |
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Indian Railways marked its 150th anniversary in 2003, counting from the first passenger run on April 16, 1853 — a 21-mile journey from Bombay's Boribandar station to Thane, hauled by three locomotives named Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan. The network that began as a colonial infrastructure project to move raw materials to port had grown by 2003 into one of the largest railway systems in the world by route length and daily passenger volume.
Commemorative 2-rupee pieces from this period saw limited secondary-market interest at issue, and most entered circulation rather than collections.