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100 Rupees
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Second Rupee (1945-1952) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King George VI in military uniform at right, set within an ornate guilloche border. The central panel carries the promise-to-pay text and denomination in words, with a red two-line overprint reading 'Military Administration of Burma / Calcutta' applied across the face. Serial numbers appear in two positions at lower left and lower right, with a further red overprint legend reading 'Legal Tender in Burma Only at any Office of Issue'. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Pick 29 is one of the last issues to carry a British-era Governor signature alongside an Indian one — J. B. Taylor was the last British Governor of the Reserve Bank, and C. D. Deshmukh, who signed as Deputy Governor here, would succeed him in 1943 and become the first Indian to hold that office. Whether both signatures appear together on a given note depends on the signing period; some examples bear Taylor's signature alone or transitional combinations, making the pairing significant for dating purposes.
The 1945 date places this squarely in the final wartime years, when currency supply and paper quality were under considerable strain across the British Indian monetary system.