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50-Rupees Specimen Travellers Cheque - Punjab National Bank
| Issuer | Punjab National Bank |
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| Printer | Security Printers of India Private Ltd. |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned cheque with the Punjab National Bank vignette at centre, consisting of two elephants flanking the bank emblem with founding year. Letterpress text in English details payment terms, payee line, and countersignature requirement. Printer's imprint of Security Printers of India Private Ltd., Kanpur, appears at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | INDIAN RUPEE TRAVELLERS CHEQUE No TCB 270544 PAYABLE WITHIN 12 MONTHS FROM -------------------------19---- THE PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK LTD PARLIAMENT STREET, NEW DELHI. PAY TO THE ORDER OF-------------------------------------------------- IN INDIA FIFTY RUPEES IN COUNTRIES NAMED OVERLEAF THE EQUIVALENT AT BANKING BUYING RATE FOR SIGHT DRAFTS ON NEW DELHI RUPEES 50 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 |
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Punjab National Bank's travellers cheque program ran through the latter decades of the twentieth century as a direct competitor to the State Bank of India's dominant network. Specimen examples like this were produced for internal approval, branch training, and occasionally regulatory demonstration — they were never encashable and typically bear a SPECIMEN perforation or overprint. Security Printers of India, the Kanpur facility established in 1968 under government mandate, handled the bulk of India's non-RBI secure document printing during this period.
Travellers cheques fell into steep commercial decline in India after the early 2000s, largely killed by ATM expansion. Surviving specimens from mid-tier issuers like PNB are genuinely uncommon.