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| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2011-2017 |
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| Currency | Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date) |
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| Obverse description | Pale brown-violet on multicolour underprint with fine guilloche patterning. A vignette of Mahatma Gandhi is positioned at right, with the Reserve Bank seal at lower right and the Ashoka Pillar emblem at left. The denomination and issuer inscriptions appear in both Hindi and English across the face, set against a light multicolour security underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक Reserve Bank of India केन्द्रीय सरकार द्वारा प्रत्याभूत GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT मैं धारक को दस रुपये अदा करने का वचन देता हूँ I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF TEN RUPEES |
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The ₹ symbol appearing on the reverse marks the adoption of India's official rupee sign, designed by D. Udaya Kumar and approved by the Union Cabinet in July 2010 — one of only a handful of currencies in modern history to codify a new typographic symbol by legislative act and immediately incorporate it into circulating paper. That single design change is what distinguishes this P#102 series from its immediate predecessor.
The plate letter system here rewards close attention. Subbarao-signed notes appear with letters A, M, and S; Rajan-signed issues cluster around L and R. The 2016 Rajan replacement note with plate letter L is catalog-listed as such, though regular issues with the same letter combination exist — making star-note identification dependent on the serial prefix rather than the plate letter alone.