₹10 — Ten Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mahatma Gandhi in three-quarter profile, spectacled and smiling, taken from the 1946 portrait — the face of every Indian note since 1996. Above, the issuer's name in Devanagari and English with the promise to pay the bearer ten rupees; the Lion Capital of Ashoka sits lower left, the Reserve Bank seal at right. Serial 94A 334427 in red, twice. The rupee symbol marks the later ₹ design.
Back: A crowded triple vignette in deep maroon: an Indian rhinoceros in left profile, a tusked elephant behind, and a snarling Bengal tiger filling the centre, all wrapped in scrolling engraved foliage — the fauna panel that has served this denomination since the mid-1990s. The denomination runs down the left in fifteen official languages; the year 2017 is printed small on the plinth beneath the animals.
In circulation
The Mahatma Gandhi series ₹10 with this animal reverse ran from 1996, gaining the ₹ symbol early in the 2010s. The design was superseded in January 2018 by the chocolate-brown Mahatma Gandhi New Series ₹10 showing the Konark Sun Temple chariot; earlier notes such as this one remain legal tender.
Details
- IssuerReserve Bank of India — guaranteed by the Central Government
- CurrencyRupee (₹)
- DenominationTen Rupees
- Collectedon the India journeys, 1992–2018
- SeriesMahatma Gandhi series, ₹ symbol issue, dated 2017
- SignatureGovernor, Reserve Bank of India
- WatermarkMahatma Gandhi portrait with electrotype 10 in the clear panel
- Dimensions137 × 63 mm