Catalog
10 Rupees No Date
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1996-2006 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Signature(s) | without plate letter - C. Rangarajan plate letter L - C. Rangarajan plate letter M - C. Rangarajan plate letter R - C. Rangarajan plate letter A - Bimal Jalan plate letter B - Bimal Jalan plate letter L - Bimal Jalan plate letter M - Bimal Jalan plate letter N - Bimal Jalan plate letter P - Bimal Jalan plate letter Q - Bimal Jalan plate letter R - Bimal Jalan plate letter S - Bimal Jalan plate letter T - Bimal Jalan without plate letter - Reddy plate letter A - Reddy plate letter R - Reddy plate letter S - Reddy |
| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Pick 89 spans a decade and three governors — Rangarajan, Jalan, and Y.V. Reddy — making plate letter identification the primary variable of collector interest. Bimal Jalan's tenure alone accounts for ten distinct plate letter varieties, an unusually broad run that reflects both high print volumes during his 1997–2003 governorship and the RBI's practice of cycling through letters rather than issuing sequential series prefixes.
The absence of a plate letter on certain Rangarajan and Reddy examples points to transitional printings at changeover periods — these are neither errors nor proofs, but routine administrative gaps in the plate assignment system.