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1000 Rupees Specimen Travelers Cheque BANK OF INDIA
| Issuer | Bank of India |
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| Currency | Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-tinted traveler's cheque with the Bank of India logo vignette at left and a vignette of Express Towers, Nariman Point, Bombay at right. Denomination numerals "1000" appear in all four corners, with letterpress text body occupying the central field. Overprinted diagonally with "SPECIMEN" in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 INDIAN RUPEE TRAVELERS CHEQUE 1000 No F PAYABLE WITHIN SIX MONTHS FROM Date____ 19____ Drawers Endorsement (TO BE SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PAYING AGENT) BANK OF INDIA EXPRESS TOWERS NARIMAN POINT BOMBAY 21 INDIA. Pay self Order RUPEES ONE THOUSAND Only Provided that the cheque has been countersigned by the Drawer For BANK OF INDIA RUPEES 1000 1000 CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR SIGNATURE OF DRAWER 1000 |
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Bank of India launched traveler's cheques in rupees partly to capture domestic tourism spending and reduce the use of cash on pilgrimages and long-distance rail journeys — a market that foreign-currency cheques obviously couldn't serve. Specimen cheques from Indian issuers rarely survive in quantity; most were destroyed in-house after internal approval processes, never reaching branch counters.
The 1000-rupee denomination sits at the high end of the domestic traveler's cheque range and likely saw limited uptake outside business travel, given that 1000 rupees represented a significant sum against average wages at the time of issue.