100 Rupees

Pick 63 belongs to the "Tiger" series introduced in 1962, which replaced the earlier "Ashoka Pillar" signature series and ran through the early 1970s. These notes were printed by the Security Printing Press at Nashik, marking a significant phase in India's push toward fully domestic banknote production after years of dependence on the India Security Press at Nasik Road expanding its capacity.

The 100-rupee denomination circulated heavily through a period of acute economic pressure — the 1966 rupee devaluation had already shaken public confidence, and inflation through the late 1960s kept high-denomination notes moving fast. Heavy circulation makes clean survivors genuinely harder to source than catalog abundance might suggest.