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500 Rupees - Specimen Traveller's Cheque - Bank of Baroda
| Issuer | Bank of Baroda |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Size | 180 x 83 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bank of Baroda traveller's cheque obverse in orange, with the issuer's name across the top and denomination numerals "500" at both left and right margins in bilingual English and Hindi text. The cheque value "FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES" is overprinted diagonally in red, along with the SPECIMEN cancellation. Directors' names appear at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bank of Baroda launched its rupee-denominated traveller's cheque programme in the early 1980s as part of a broader push by Indian nationalised banks to compete with foreign-issued cheques that had long dominated the market. Specimen pieces from this series were produced for branch training and agency demonstration purposes — they were never intended for encashment and carry the SPECIMEN overprint specifically to prevent misuse during distribution to correspondent offices.
Cotton substrate and a watermark were the principal security measures, modest by contemporary international standards but consistent with RBI-regulated specifications for the instrument class at the time.