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100 Rupees - Specimen Travellers Cheque State Bank of India Calcutta YJ Series
| Issuer | State Bank of India |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Size | 180 x 78 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue-tinted cheque with the denomination numeral at left and the State Bank of India logo at right, with a vignette of the Gateway of India as central underprint. The face carries printed text blocks for countersignature, payee, and negotiation terms, with SPECIMEN overprint across the issuing authority's signature line. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, left plain on cream-white security paper with no vignette, lettering, or ornamental work. |
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State Bank of India travellers cheques of this period were printed at the India Security Press in Nasik Road — the same facility responsible for Indian banknotes and passports — under tight government oversight. The YJ series designation points to a specific issuance block tied to the Calcutta circle, one of SBI's regional administrative divisions that managed its own cheque allocations separately from head office.
Specimen examples from this issue are considerably scarcer than cancelled or used counterparts. The 1979 date places this squarely in the period following India's Foreign Exchange Regulation Act of 1973, which imposed strict limits on how much currency travellers could carry abroad — travellers cheques were the prescribed workaround, making demand for this format unusually high during the late 1970s.