Catalog
10 Rupees Corrected Urdu inscription
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1970-1990 |
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| Currency | Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on brown and pale green underprint, with the Asoka lion capital at right and the denomination numeral 10 (18 mm width) at centre. The Governor's signature appears at lower centre beneath the promise-to-pay legend, with guarantee text distributed across the face in both English and Devanagari script. Guilloche patterning fills the background field. |
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| Reverse lettering | भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक टेन रूपये TEN RUPEES RESERVE BANK OF INDIA |
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The "Corrected Urdu inscription" designation in the catalog name points to a specific typographical error on earlier 10 Rupee notes of this Lion Capital series, where the Urdu text was found to contain a scripting mistake. The correction was made to the printing plates rather than addressed through a full redesign, which is why the two types are cataloged separately under Pick despite being visually near-identical to most collectors. The long signature run — spanning seven governors across roughly two decades — reflects the stability of the underlying plate design rather than any reissue event.
Plate letter progression from A through G maps loosely to print volume growth as India's cash economy expanded through the 1970s and 1980s. M. Narasimham's tenure as governor lasted only a matter of weeks in 1977, making his signature combinations among the shortest-lived of any RBI governor on this denomination.