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5 Rupees
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1962-1970 |
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| Reference(s) | P#54 |
| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green tones with an intricate guilloche underprint. The Ashoka Lion Capital emblem is engraved at right, accompanied by the large denomination numeral '5' in the centre within a decorative vignette. The legend 'RESERVE BANK OF INDIA' runs across the top, with the promise text and 'FIVE RUPEES' inscribed centrally; the lower left carries the denomination in Devanagari script (पाँच रुपये), with a signature of the Governor and serial number at lower right. |
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| Protection description | the Ashoka Lion Capital visible in the central blank area of the note when held to light. |
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Pick 54 spans a politically and economically turbulent stretch for India — the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian War, the 1965 war with Pakistan, and severe foreign exchange pressure that led the government to devalue the rupee by 36.5% in June 1966. The 5 rupee denomination was among the most actively circulated notes through all of it, which means genuinely uncirculated examples from the Bhattacharya signature period are harder to locate than the catalog abundance suggests.
L. K. Jha's signature tenure began in 1967, coinciding with post-devaluation austerity and IMF negotiations. Two governors, one design, very different monetary climates.