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50 Paise Jawaharlal Nehru - Hindi legend
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Composition | Nickel |
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| Reverse description | A bare-headed left-facing portrait bust of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, occupies the central field, rendered in restrained relief with naturalistic detail of his facial features and collar. Surrounding the effigy in a circular legend along the upper periphery is his name in Devanagari script, reading 'जवाहरलाल नेहरु'. His birth and death years, '1889 - 1964', are inscribed in the lower field in Arabic numerals, flanked by small five-pointed star stops positioned at the lower left and lower right of the field. |
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| Mintage | 1964 - Calcutta Mint - 28,350,000 1964 ♦ - Mumbai Mint - 36,190,000 |
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Issued as a memorial coin following Nehru's death in May 1964, this was one of India's earliest commemorative circulation pieces. The distinction of carrying a Hindi legend — rather than the English-script issues struck simultaneously — reflects the ongoing political tension over India's official language policy, which had already triggered serious unrest in Tamil Nadu and would erupt into full-scale anti-Hindi agitation by early 1965.