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| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2006-2016 |
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| Size | 177 × 73 mm |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the obverse is dominated by an intaglio portrait of Mahatma Gandhi facing right, with his name inscribed in both Devanagari and Latin script beneath. The centre carries a large multicolour guilloche underprint with the numeral '1000' in green optically variable ink, surrounded by floral and geometric patterns. The Ashoka Pillar emblem appears at lower left, flanked by serial numbers in blue and red; the Reserve Bank of India seal is printed to the lower right of the portrait, with bilingual promise text and dual governor signatures below. |
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| Protection description | Mahatma Gandhi watermark with electrotype numeral '1000'; windowed security thread with 'भारत' and 'RBI' inscriptions in microtext; numeral '1000' in optically variable green ink that shifts on tilt |
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The P#107 series spans three RBI governors — Y. V. Reddy, D. Subbarao, and Raghuram Rajan — a tenure that covered the 2008 global financial crisis and India's subsequent tightening cycle. The ₹ symbol variant is the detail worth noting: the Indian rupee sign was officially adopted by the Government of India in July 2010, designed by D. Udaya Kumar, making pre-2010 dated notes in this series the last of the type without it on the reverse.
The entire P#107 series was demonetized on 8 November 2016, when Prime Minister Modi announced the withdrawal of all ₹500 and ₹1000 notes with roughly four hours' notice, rendering an estimated ₹15.44 lakh crore in currency illegal tender overnight.