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100 Rupees
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 100 Rupees |
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| Obverse description | Purple and olive-green note with an intaglio portrait of King George V in uniform within an oval vignette at right, and a second blank oval vignette at left serving as a watermark area. The central text panel carries the promise-to-pay inscription for the Government of India, with the denomination spelled out in full. A red overprint legend appears at the top, and the issuing office RANGOON is printed above centre; the note bears a manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Purple and olive-green reverse dominated by two large blank oval guilloche vignettes flanking a central panel of multilingual denomination inscriptions in Devanagari, Bengali, Burmese, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati scripts, all set against an intricate fine-line guilloche underprint. A red overprint legend runs across the top. The lower register carries a solid olive-green architectural frieze with the word RUPEES at left and the numeral 100 at right. |
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| Signature(s) | J.W. Kelly |
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