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The 5 rupee coin of the international crop science congress. This international conference was to be held in 1996 and a large quantity of these commemorative coins were to be minted, but for some reason the conference got canceled and never happened. So the mintage of these coins was halted in between. As a result, only 11,000 such coins were minted. This is definitely one of the rare coins of republic India. Though after wards, the Calcutta mint released a two coin set having two such coins. So these are now not as rare as they originally were,but it is still rare enough to catch the fancy of numismatists. The design on the obverse is the globe with crops all over it. And BTW, it does not look like it in the picture, but this coin I have put up has some shine and some very beautiful toning to it when we see it in light, and counts as UNC(UNC from original circulated issues of crop science and not taken from the set that was later released and is a restrike). The given condition is rare to find and has a premium pricing to it as well.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:08:11 +0000

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