0 Rupees Anti-corruption note

Not legal tender and never intended to be. The 5th Pillar NGO began distributing these zero-denomination notes in Tamil Nadu around 2007 as a direct-action tool: citizens were encouraged to hand them to officials demanding bribes, a pointed refusal dressed up as a transaction. The idea spread quickly — millions of copies were eventually distributed across India, making it one of the more unusual mass-print campaigns in the subcontinent's modern history.

The note mimics the visual grammar of Reserve Bank of India currency closely enough to function as a prop, while the zero denomination keeps it unambiguously outside counterfeiting law. Collectors should note that the design was revised multiple times across the 2007–2021 production window, making precise dating of individual examples genuinely difficult without accompanying documentation.