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200 Rupees Specimen Travellers Cheque - Punjab National Bank
| Issuer | Punjab National Bank |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | INDIAN RUPEE TRAVELLERS CHEQUE No TCE 046544 PAYABLE WITHIN 12 MONTHS FROM -------------------------19---- THE PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK LTD PARLIAMENT STREET, NEW DELHI. PAY TO THE ORDER OF-------------------------------------------------- IN INDIA TWO HUNDRED RUPEES IN COUNTRIES NAMED OVERLEAF THE EQUIVALENT AT BANKING BUYING RATE FOR SIGHT DRAFTS ON NEW DELHI RUPEES 200 PROVIDED THAT THE CHEQUE HAS BEEN COUNTERSIGNED BY THE HOLDER SIGNATURE OF HOLDER FOR THE PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK LTD CUSTODIAN SECURITY PRINTERS OF INDIA PRIVATE LTD., KANPUR |
| Reverse description | Reverse is plain and largely unprinted, with only faint bleed-through visible from the obverse letterpress text. No vignette, underprint, or design elements are present. |
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Punjab National Bank was one of the first Indian commercial banks to issue rupee-denominated travellers cheques in the decades following nationalisation, when the Reserve Bank of India actively encouraged domestic banking instruments to reduce reliance on foreign-issued cheques. Specimen examples like this one were produced specifically for staff training and branch familiarisation — they were never meant to circulate and carry no monetary liability.
Security Printers of India, operating under government oversight from its Kanpur facility, handled a significant share of India's secure commercial document printing alongside its banknote work. The cotton substrate here is identical in specification to currency paper, a deliberate choice given the fraud risks associated with cheque forgery in the 1970s and 80s Indian banking sector.