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10 Rupees No Date
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1996-2006 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour underprint in orange and brown tones carries a central intaglio vignette of three Indian wildlife animals: a rhinoceros at left, an elephant at upper right, and a Bengal tiger in the foreground center, all rendered in fine engraved detail against decorative scrollwork. The denomination panel at lower left lists the value in fifteen regional language scripts, with "दस रुपये" and "TEN RUPEES" inscribed at bottom, flanking the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक দহ টকা দশ টাকা દસ રૂપિયા ಹತ್ತು ರುಪಾಯಿಗಳು دہ رۄپے धा रुपया പത്തു രൂപ दहा रुपये दस रुपियाँ ଦଶ ଟଙ୍କା ਦਸ ਰੁਪਏ दशरूप्यकाणि பத்து ரூபாய் పది రూపాయలు دس روپے 10 दस रुपये TEN RUPEES (Translation: Reserve Bank of India) |
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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.