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| 正面描述 | Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at centre-right against a pink and magenta guilloche underprint, with the large numeral '2000' in the new Rupee symbol format to the right and the Ashoka Pillar emblem at far right. The Reserve Bank of India seal appears alongside intaglio-printed bilingual inscriptions in Hindi and English, with the serial number printed twice — in the upper left and lower right. A windowed security thread with demetallised text runs vertically through the note. |
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| 背面描述 | Vignette of the Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft against a pale background, rendered in intaglio, occupying the left-centre of the note. A pink and magenta geometric guilloche underprint fills the field, with the denomination and bilingual legends printed in the upper register. The Swachh Bharat mission logo appears in the lower right area. |
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This note exists entirely because of a single night. On 8 November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced with four hours' notice that all ₹500 and ₹1000 notes would cease to be legal tender by midnight — the largest demonetization exercise in Indian history by volume, affecting roughly 86% of currency in circulation. The 2000 rupee note was pre-positioned to replace that liquidity, meaning the Reserve Bank had been printing it in secret for months before the announcement.
The rollout was chaotic. ATMs required physical recalibration to accept the new dimensions, creating weeks of queues across the country. Within two years, the RBI had effectively stopped injecting fresh ₹2000 notes into circulation, and by May 2023 the denomination was withdrawn entirely — making the 2016–2017 print run both the first and the last for this value.