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500 Rupees Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 500 Rupees |
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| Obverse script | Devanagari, Latin |
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| Reverse script | Devanagari, Latin |
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Issued to mark the 525th birth anniversary of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the 15th-century Bengali Vaishnava saint whose devotional movement — emphasizing congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra — spread rapidly through Bengal and Odisha and eventually gave rise to the global ISKCON organization centuries later. The Government of India has issued commemorative rupee series honoring religious figures across denominations since the 1970s, and this coin falls within that long-running program.
The .500 fine silver specification is notably low for a commemorative of this denomination, the quaternary alloy composition being a cost-control measure that became increasingly common in Indian commemoratives from the 2000s onward.