1 Rupee Mahatma Gandhi birth centenary

Features

Location	India
Issuing institution	Government of India
Period	Republic (1950-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative banknotes
Years	1969-1970
Value	1 Rupee 1 INR = USD 0.010
Currency	Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	97 × 63 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Number	N# 203803
References	P# 66 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

Birth Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi

Obverse

Special Secretary Ministry of Finance. Gandhi birth centenary issue. Re.1 Gandhi coin.

Scripts: Devanagari, Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
BHARAT
1
EK ROOPAYA
ONE RUPEE

Reverse

‘One Rupee’ is inscribed in 13 different Indian languages, as listed below:
Assamese: এক টাকা
Bengali: এক টাকা
Gujarati: એક રૂપિયા
Kannada: ಒಂದು ರೂಪಾಯಿ
Kashmiri: ایک روپیہ
Malayalam: ഒരു രൂപ
Marathi: एक रुपया
Oriya (Odia): ଏକ ଟଙ୍କା
Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਇੱਕ ਰੁਪਇਆ
Sanskrit: एक रूप्यकम्
Tamil: ஒரு ரூபாய்
Telugu: ఒక రూపాయి
Urdu: ایک روپیہ

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

Lettering:
BHARAT
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
EK ROOPAYA
ONE RUPEE

Watermark

Signature

I. G. Patel (IGP), Finance Secretary

Comments

Uncirculated notes issued in stapled bundles.

Note: Some specific sources mention differences in the sizes of the letters in the prefix. However, in more comprehensive catalogs (international and local), nothing is mentioned about this. In fact, there is no evidence of these differences (only images like the one below).

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Date	Signatures				VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1969-1970)	IGP					$ 1.20	$ 1.20	$ 1.60	$ 1.80	$ 1.80

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Katz Auction 118 Lot 108	23 Mar 2024	UNC	USD 5.81 (EUR 5.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 168 Lot 98	10 Sep 2025		USD 23.22 (EUR 20.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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