Chennai: To celebrate the 150th birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi, a Dubai-based numismatics company has launched a unique series of commemorative notes.
The limited-edition Zero Euro 12–notes commemorative series is being unveiled by UAE-based specialized numismatics company, Numisbing, with just 5000 notes of each design. The first two notes of the series are launching now and the rest sequentially until 2 October 2019.
The notes are designed by Dubai-based Indian artist, Akbar Saheb who is also the sole illustrator of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s book, Mann Ki Baat. The illustrations on the note are based on interesting and famous incidents from Gandhi’s personal and political life.
The first note discusses the three vows that young Mohandas Gandhi gave to his mother Puttlibai before he left for England for further studies in law. The second note is based on the famous incident when Gandhi was thrown off a train at the Pietermaritzburg Railway Station, South Africa in 1893, when he refused to move from a ‘whites-only’ compartment.
Explaining the background of the initiative, Ramkumar, founder of Numisbing and President of International Bank Note Society, Dubai Chapter said, ‘Besides the fact that these commemorative notes have a huge shelf value, the bigger reason for the initiative was to bring Mahatma Gandhi back to life using incidents that are more than just history lessons.
Only once before a similar initiative has been taken when the Indian government issued commemorative notes with the image of Gandhi in 1969 to celebrate his 100th birth anniversary. These notes were for public use as well.’