1985 Indira Gandhi Bomaby Mint 4 Coin Proof Set
Mint Mark(Proof):'B' below date
Date of Issue :19th Nov,1985
Above is Indira Gandhi -Proof Set
The Set Contains 4 Coins:100Rs-S50,20Rs-Cu-Ni,5Rs-Cu-Ni,1Rs-Cu-Ni.
4 Coin set was released only in Proofs.So this set is very rare.
2 Coin (100Rs,20Rs) Proof and Unc Sets ,Single Coin(100Rs,20 Rs ) Proof and Unc Sets were also issued.
History
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi(1917-1984) was the prime minister of India for three terms, from 1966 to 1977; and fourth term from 1980 to 1984, when she was assasinated in the wake of operation blue star.She is the only female prime minister of India till date, and was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. She married Feroze Gandhi (no relation to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also called Mahatma Gandhi). She was brought up in a politically strong and influential household, and after the sudden demise of Lal Bahadur Shastri, she was thrust into the foremost ranks of congress by the congress president K.Kamaraj. She made politically correct moves and very influential, so she came into power. But some inabilities and some inefficiencies led to the enforcing of the emergency in the late 1970s. This caused her to be out of power for three years. She also devalued the rupee from 4 Re to a dollar to 7 Re/dollar, and charges of corruption were proved against her, but she refused to resign.
In 1984, some extremists in Punjab were in the holy shrine of Darbar sahib in Amritsar, and she went through with the hard military operation against those people, forgetting about the place and the civilian pilgrims there. This operation was named 'operation bluestar', and was the cause of her assasination at the hands of two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh.
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Below is the Composition of Above Set
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