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2 Rupees
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1962 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF INDIA GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF TWO RUPEES DO ROOPAYE AT ANY OFFICE OF THE ISSUE FOR THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA (SIGNATURE) GOVERNOR |
| Reverse description | Printed with a greenish overlay on a predominantly brown ground, the reverse carries a central vignette of a tiger bust facing right, set within an ornate guilloche frame. Inscriptions in thirteen regional Indian languages are arranged around the central motif. |
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The P#30 series marked the first substantive redesign of the 2 Rupee note after the Republic of India's consolidation of its currency architecture in the early 1950s. The Reserve Bank had been issuing 2 Rupee notes continuously since the colonial period, but the 1962 iteration came with a shift in the signature panel — different governors' signatures appear across the run, making precise attribution to a specific printing cycle a minor but real collector headache.
Notes from this series circulated hard and long. The 2 Rupee denomination stayed in active daily use for decades, and genuinely uncirculated examples from the early 1960s printings are difficult to find.