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5 Rupees Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a front-facing view of the Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House of India) in New Delhi, its distinctive circular colonnaded structure rendered in fine detail with a central flagpole. The date '1991' appears in the upper field above the building. The outer legend is divided between a bilingual inscription in Devanagari script on the left and Latin script on the right, separated by the building's image, all within a beaded inner border and reeded outer rim. |
| Reverse script | Latin/Devanagari |
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The 1991 Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference was held in New Delhi, bringing together legislators from across the Commonwealth at a moment when India was navigating a severe balance-of-payments crisis that would, within months, force the government to airlift gold reserves to the Bank of England as collateral for an emergency IMF loan. The commemorative issue was authorized regardless — a routine diplomatic courtesy that Indian mints had by then made a habit of, regardless of fiscal conditions.