A rs.1,000 coin to celebrate 1,000 years of big tanjavur temple
Numismatists have a reason to rejoice. Soon, they could have limited edition commemorative coins of Rs 1,000 denomination in their collection. So far, the highest denomination of commemorative coins issued by the Indian government was Rs150.
The Rs1,000-coin is to be issued in commemoration of 1,000 years of the Brihadeeswarar temple in Thanjavur. Though Parliament passed a bill in 1975 to mint coins up to denominations of Rs 1,000, the government never issued coins worth more than Rs 150. A Rs 5-commemorative coin was released when the Thanjavur temple celebrated 1,000 years of its existence in 2010 by the then Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi. It is only recently that the government decided to issue Rs1,000-coins..