10 Rupees No Date

Features

Issuer	India
Issuing bank	Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक)
Period	Republic (1950-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	1996-2006
Value	10 Rupees 10 INR = USD 0.10
Currency	Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	137 × 63 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Number	N# 203491
References	P# 89 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

Pale brown-violet on multicolor underprint. Mahatma
Gandhi at right, Reserve Bank seal at lower right.

Scripts: Devanagari, Latin

Lettering:
भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
केन्द्रीय सरकार द्वारा प्रत्याभूत
GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
10
मैं धारक को I PROMISE TO
दस रुपये PAY THE BEARER
अदा करने का THE SUM OF
वचन देता हूँ। TEN RUPEES

M.K. GANDHI

Reverse

Rhinoceros and elephant heads behind the tiger at left center.

Ten Rupees – Multilingual Depiction on Currency Note
(15 official Indian Languages – excluding Hindi and English)

• Assamese: দশ টকা
• Bengali: দশ টাকা
• Gujarati: દસ રૂપિયા
• Kannada: ಹತ್ತು ರೂಪಾಯಿ
• Kashmiri: دس روپیہ
• Konkani: दहा रुपये
• Malayalam: പത്ത് രൂപ
• Marathi: दहा रुपये
• Nepali: दस रुपैयाँ
• Oriya (Odia): ଦଶ ଟଙ୍କା
• Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਦਸ ਰੁਪਏ
• Sanskrit: दश रूप्यकाणि
• Tamil: பத்து ரூபாய்
• Telugu: పది రూపాయలు
• Urdu: دس روپیہ

Scripts: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Gurmukhi

Lettering:
भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक

দহ টকা
দশ টাকা
દસ રૂપિયા
ಹತ್ತು ರುಪಾಯಿಗಳು
دہ رۄپے
धा रुपया
പത്തു രൂപ
दहा रुपये
दस रुपियाँ
ଦଶ ଟଙ୍କା
ਦਸ ਰੁਪਏ
दशरूप्यकाणि
பத்து ரூபாய்
పది రూపాయలు
دس روپے

10 दस रुपये TEN RUPEES

Translation: Reserve Bank of India

Watermark

Mahatma Gandhi

Signatures

Chakravarthi Rangarajan (CR)	Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Bimal Jalan (BJ)	Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Yaga Venugopal Reddy (YVR)	Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Printer

Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India, India (2006-date)

Comments

P#89 has no year printed below the tiger on reverse. See P#95 and P#102 for date below tiger.
P#89 has no denomination in the watermark. See P#95 and P#102 for denomination with watermark.

Plate letter, if present, appears behind the serial numbers.

UV activity:

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There is a security thread present on this banknote, it is only visible under a backlight, inscription “RBI भारत” repeated throughout:

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Date	Signatures	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References		Frequency
Undetermined
ND (1996-1997)	CR		$ 0.57	$ 0.57	$ 0.57	$ 0.90	$ 1.10	P# 89a Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Without insert letter	25%
ND (1996-1997)	CR			$ 0.35			$ 0.39	P# 89b Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter L	9%
ND (1996-1997)	CR			$ 0.43			$ 2.70	P# 89c Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter M	9%
ND (1996-1997)	CR						$ 0.39	P# 89d Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter R	6%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ			$ 0.27			$ 0.39	P# 89e Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter A	10%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ			$ 0.14	$ 0.14	$ 0.27	$ 0.38	P# 89f Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter B	11%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ			$ 0.13			$ 0.39	P# 89g Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter L	9%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ		$ 0.38				$ 0.39	P# 89h Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter M	5%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ			$ 0.45			$ 0.45	P# 89i Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter N	10%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ		$ 0.26	$ 0.26			$ 0.39	P# 89j Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter P	7%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ						$ 0.46	P# 89k Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter Q	8%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ			$ 0.42			$ 0.42	P# 89l Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter R	5%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ						$ 0.39	P# 89m Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter S	6%
ND (1997-2003)	BJ						$ 0.39	P# 89n Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter T	5%
ND (2003-2006)	YVR	$ 0.10	$ 0.43	$ 0.43	$ 0.43	$ 0.43	$ 0.43	P# 89o Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter A	13%
ND (2003-2006)	YVR		$ 0.13	$ 0.52	$ 0.52	$ 0.52	$ 0.52	P# 89p Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Without insert letter	13%
ND (2003-2006)	YVR						$ 0.60	P# 89q Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter R	7%
ND (2003-2006)	YVR			$ 0.26			$ 0.55	P# 89r Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).	Insert letter S	4%

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	Katz Auction 140 Lot 2528	22 Oct 2024	Undetermined	VF	USD 37.11 (EUR 32.00) (+ buyer's premium) The lot includes several items.
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