₹10 — Ten Rupees
The artwork
Front: Sober brown and pale rose. The Lion Capital of Ashoka stands at right between engraved pillars, the wheel and horse of the abacus clear beneath the lions and the motto सत्यमेव जयते below. Centre, a large 10 over lathework, flanked by the promise to pay in Hindi and English under RESERVE BANK OF INDIA and the central government guarantee. Serial 73L 069311 twice; the left oval is left blank for the watermark.
Back: An oval vignette of a lateen-rigged dhow running before the wind, sails full, low hills on the horizon and a heavy swell worked up in fine line engraving — the scene that gave the note its collectors' name. Below it the Reserve Bank seal with its palm tree and tiger. At left the denomination in the fifteen official language panel; TEN RUPEES and दस रुपये along the foot.
In circulation
The dhow reverse belongs to the ten-rupee design that served India from 1970 through to the early 1990s, this printing signed by S. Venkitaramanan, Governor from 1990 to 1992. It was superseded by the Mahatma Gandhi series ten introduced from 1996, and notes of this pattern were steadily withdrawn thereafter.
Details
- IssuerReserve Bank of India — guaranteed by the Central Government
- CurrencyRupee (₹)
- DenominationTen Rupees
- Collectedon the India journeys, 1992–2018
- SeriesTen rupees, dhow ('boat') reverse; serial prefix 73L
- SignatureS. Venkitaramanan, Governor
- WatermarkLion Capital of Ashoka, in the blank oval at left