Coins and Medals

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Nepal 2000 Rupees    First National Journalism Year & 116th Anniversary of Gorkhapatra



Obverse
Lettering:
नेपाल
NEPAL
प्रथम राष्ट्रिय पत्रकारिता दिवस - २०७३

Translation:
NEPAL
First National Journalism Day - 2023

Reverse
Lettering:
११६ औं गौरवमय वर्ष
गोर्खापत्र
(वि. स. १९५८)
निरोगी सबै हुन् सबै हुन् सुखीया |
सबै वेस देखुन् नहुन् क्वै दुखीया ||

Translation:
116th Glorious Years
Gorkhapatra
(B.S. 1958)
May everyone be healthy, everyone be happy
May everyone be fine, no one be sad

Gorkhapatra is the oldest Nepali language state-owned national daily newspaper of Nepal. It was started as a weekly newspaper in May 1901 and became a daily newspaper in 1961.

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Lithuania 1985 65th anniversary of Lithuanian Newspaper "Vilnis" in USA, Chicago medal



Vilnis ('Wave') was a Lithuanian language communist newspaper published from Chicago, the United States 1920–1989. The first issue was published on April 8, 1920, following the split the Socialist Party of America. The founder of Vilnis, Vincas Andrulis, became its editor. Vilnis was a daily newspaper, but which became a weekly in its later years. Vilnis was issued by the Workers Publishing Association. By the mid-1920s Vilnis had a circulation of around 11,500. When the New York-based publication Daily Worker as suspended in the 1950s, Vilnis became the most widely circulated communist daily in the country. It had a circulation of around 32,000. As of 1968 Vilnis was a semi-weekly, with a circulation of 5,000. By the mid-1970s, the circulation of Vilnis (published thrice weekly) had dropped to 2,500.