Catalogus
| Uitgever | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Jaar | 1975-1990 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Earth-toned multicolour note with a blank watermark window at left and a vertical panel of denomination inscriptions in 13 regional languages at left centre. The Ashoka Pillar state emblem is printed to the right of centre, with bilingual legends in Hindi and English across the upper register; the guarantee and promise-to-pay clauses appear in both scripts below the issuer's title. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving beveiliging | Ashoka Pillar watermark visible within the watermark window panel on the obverse left |
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| Opmerkingen |
The P#85 series spans a particularly turbulent stretch of Indian monetary policy — the period bracketed by the 1973 oil shock on one side and the balance-of-payments pressures of the late 1980s on the other. What distinguishes the "without small text" variety from its successors is the absence of the fine-print inscription below the Ashoka column pillar, a detail added in later printings as part of incremental security upgrades rather than any single formal redesign.
Four different signatories appear across the series run, reflecting genuine institutional churn at the RBI governorship — Jagannathan, Puri, Narasimham, and I. G. Patel each held the position during this window, making signature attribution the primary tool for dating individual specimens more precisely than the broad series years allow.