{"id":6422,"date":"2016-08-23T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2016-08-23T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:04:59","slug":"cover-coin-statue-for-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/cover-coin-statue-for-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover-coin-statue for Mother\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Mother Teresa&#8217;s sainthood ceremony in Vatican on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_565619930\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 4<\/span><\/span>, a postal cover, coin and statue will be dedicated to the late Roman Catholic nun. Made of pure silk, India Post will release a special postal and numismatic cover of Mother Teresa, the first of its kind, on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_565619931\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 2<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A five-rupee commemorative coin issued by the Indian government in 2010 to mark the centenary birth celebrations of the legend will be engraved on the cover. This is a special feature as it combines the two collectible items of coins and stamps,&#8221; eminent philatelist Alok K Goyal, who designed the stamps, said.<\/p>\n<p>The collectors&#8217; item will be released in a limited edition of 1,000 pieces. Besides this, the Republic of Macedonia, where Teresa was born in 1910, has also announced to release a special gold-plated silver coin on the Nobel laureate. The coin will have a face value of 100 Macedonian Denars and will be released next month.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 5,000 pieces of the coin will be minted for the global market out of which 50 will be made available for the Indian market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Mother Teresa&#8217;s sainthood ceremony in Vatican on September 4, a postal cover, coin and statue will be dedicated to the late Roman Catholic nun. Made of pure silk, India Post will release a special postal and numismatic cover of Mother Teresa, the first of its kind, on September 2. &#8220;A five-rupee commemorative coin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2674,2675,2670,2673,2671,2672],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-stories","tag-coin-and-statue","tag-late-roman-catholic-nun","tag-mother-teresa","tag-postal-cover","tag-sainthood-ceremony","tag-vatican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}