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100 Rupees With small text under Ashoka column
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1985-1990 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note in earth tones with the Ashoka Column capital (Lion Capital of Sarnath) seal printed to the right of centre, accompanied by the large numeral 100 positioned slightly right of centre. Two serial numbers appear in contrasting ink, one at upper right and one at lower left, flanking the central vignette. Inscriptions in English and Hindi are arranged across the face, with the Governor's signature below the central design. |
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| Protection description | Ashoka Column (Lion Capital of Sarnath) watermark. |
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The small text below the Ashoka Pillar capital — reading "भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक" in fine print — was added as a subtle anti-counterfeiting measure during the mid-1980s revision of this series, distinguishing it from the immediately preceding issues. The Reserve Bank made several incremental modifications to the 100 Rupee notes throughout this period without formal series breaks, which creates persistent attribution headaches for collectors trying to pin down exact transition dates between varieties.
Pick 85A sits within a broader family of notes that circulated through one of India's more turbulent inflationary decades, and heavily worn examples vastly outnumber clean ones in the market.