Catalog
10 Rupees 3rd Issue
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1910-1920 |
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| Value | 10 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | Red underprint of irregular ovals beneath the two upper serial numbers, with the word "TEN" in large letterpress at the centre. "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA" appears across the top, with four serial numbers positioned at each corner; issuing circle initials flank the bilingual text panels on either side (B–Bombay, C–Calcutta, M–Madras, L–Lahore, K–Kurrachee, A–Cawnpore, R–Rangoon). The date of issue is printed below each language panel. |
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| Protection description | Wavy lines within a wavy rectangular panel; "10" at the centre of the block with "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA" at the bottom centre; "RUPEES" inverted vertically on either side. A plate number (single letter) appears at lower left; a four-digit week and year of manufacture number is also present. |
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The Government of India's 10 Rupees notes of this series were printed at the India Security Press, Nasik Road, which had been established partly to reduce British India's dependence on metropolitan printers during wartime. A note dated 30 April 1945 was issued in the final weeks before the end of the Second World War in Europe, when the colonial currency apparatus was still operating under wartime printing constraints and distribution pressures across a subcontinent moving rapidly toward partition-era instability.
The Pick reference P#A10 places this as an earlier design type pressed into extended service well beyond its original period — a not uncommon pattern when fresh plate preparation was deprioritized during the war.