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1 Rupee - George VI
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green note with a large blank oval vignette panel at left, reserved for the watermark area, and a circular coin-style medallion at upper right bearing a right-facing portrait of King George VI in crown, inscribed around the border. The denomination "ONE RUPEE" and numeral "1" appear in bold letterpress at centre over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the issuer inscription "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA" across the top. A facsimile signature of the Secretary, Finance Department appears at lower right below the notation "FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA". |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central panel with the denomination "ONE RUPEE" rendered in seven Indian scripts — Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Gujarati — arranged in a structured multilingual layout. The issuer legend "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA" appears above and below the language panel, with the numeral "1" repeated at either side within a fine guilloche border running the full perimeter of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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