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100 Rupees - George V
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1927 |
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| Size | 170 × 115 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolored intaglio and letterpress printing in predominantly violet and green tones. Central vignette of King George V facing right, flanked by intricate guilloche underprint patterns. Black prefix letters and serial numbering appear at upper left and lower right; no security thread present. |
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| Reverse description | Monochrome intaglio printing in green on a fine guilloche ground, with two large oval panels at left and right flanking a central column of the face value rendered in seven regional scripts: Devanagari, Bengali, Burmese, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, and Gujarati. The denomination RUPEES 100 is letterpress-printed in a decorated panel along the lower border. |
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Pick 10 falls within the early Nashik production period, shortly after the India Security Press took over rupee printing from Thomas De La Rue in London. The transfer of high-denomination printing to an in-country facility was a deliberate administrative decision by the Government of India, driven partly by cost and partly by the logistics of shipping finished currency during a period when colonial financial infrastructure was being rationalized. Early Nashik output on this series is sometimes found with inconsistent ink distribution, a known characteristic of the press's calibration in its first years of operation.
The 1927 date places this note well before the Reserve Bank of India Act of 1934, meaning it was issued as a direct Government obligation rather than through a central bank.