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20 Rupees Dated Reverse, no Rupee Symbol
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2006-2012 |
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| Printer | Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India, India (2006-date) |
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| Protection description | Mahatma Gandhi portrait watermark visible in the left blank area; embedded security thread running vertically through the note |
| Variants | P#96a - 2006 P#96b - 2007 without plate letter P#96c - 2007 plate letter: E P#96d - 2007 plate letter: R P#96e - 2008 without plate letter P#96f - 2008 plate letter: E P#96g - 2009 without plate letter P#96h - 2009 plate letter E P#96i - 2009 plate letter R P#96j - 2010 without plate letter P#96k - 2010 plate letter E P#96l - 2010 plate letter R P#96m - 2011 without plate letter P#96n - 2011 plate letter E P#96o - 2011 plate letter F P#96p - 2011 plate letter R P#96q - 2012 Plate letter F |
| Comments |
The P#96 series spans a period when the Reserve Bank was quietly overhauling its security architecture — the inset letter system introduced across these notes allowed the RBI to track printing batches by facility, a layer of administrative control not visible to casual users. SPMCIL had only been corporatized in 2006, carved out of direct government departmental control, making early impressions from this series among the first produced under the new entity's institutional identity.
The "no Rupee symbol" distinction matters because India formally adopted the ₹ symbol only in July 2010, designed by D. Udaya Kumar. Notes printed after its adoption carry it; this type predates or deliberately excludes it depending on print run.