₹10 — Ten Rupees
The artwork
Front: Plain and businesslike: the value 10 boxed at the upper left, "RESERVE BANK OF INDIA" across an engraved band, and beneath it the line "GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT". The promise to pay ten rupees is set twice, English at the left and Hindi at the right, flanking a large numeral on a lace-work ground. At the right, between two carved pillars, stands the Lion Capital of Ashoka from Sarnath — the state emblem, with its wheel and bull below.
Back: A lateen-rigged sailing boat runs before the wind in an oval frame, low hills and palms on the far shore, the sea worked in fine engraved lines. Below it sits the Reserve Bank's seal, the palm tree and tiger in a medallion. The left panel carries the denomination in the official languages, stacked script upon script; along the foot, "दस रुपये" and "TEN RUPEES".
In circulation
The brown ten with the sailing boat served through the 1970s and 1980s, one of the workhorse notes of the period. It gave way in the early 1990s to a redesigned ten with peacocks on the reverse, and then, from 1996, to the Mahatma Gandhi series that replaced the Lion Capital across the board.
Details
- IssuerReserve Bank of India, guaranteed by the Central Government
- CurrencyRupee (₹)
- DenominationTen Rupees
- Collectedon the India journeys, 1992–2018
- SeriesTen rupees, Lion Capital front with sailing-boat reverse
- PrinterIndia Security Press, Nashik
- WatermarkLion Capital of Ashoka
- SecuritySerial in the two-line prefix style, R/77, in the upper right panel