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Gandhi's birth anniversary Commemorative notes

March 2 , 2019 2097 days 847 0
  • To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a UAE-based company will globally release the first-ever limited-edition commemorative series 12 bank notes of zero value.
  • Dubai based Indian artist Akbar Saheb has designed these special notes.
  • As a tribute to Gandhi, each note will feature memorable incidents from his personal and political life.
  • The first 2 notes with just 5000 pieces will be printed in each design and the rest will be released in different phases till October 2.
  • Out of the first 2 notes released, the first note shows the ‘Promise to Mother’ in 1880 made by Gandhi to his mother.
  • Second note features the historic incident of 1893 when the young lawyer Gandhi was thrown off from a ‘Whites only’ compartment of a train at Pietermaritzburg railway station in South Africa.

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