₹100 — One Hundred Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mahatma Gandhi at the right, smiling and bespectacled, drawn from the 1946 portrait that has fronted every Indian note since 1996. Above him the issuer's name in Devanagari and English, with "GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT" and the bilingual promise to pay one hundred rupees. Lower left, the Lion Capital of Ashoka over "सत्यमेव जयते"; at right the Reserve Bank seal with its palm and tiger. Red serials, upper right and lower left.
Back: A wide Himalayan panorama fills the centre within a scalloped arch — the snows of the Kanchenjunga range, engraved in grey and violet with the ridges running left to right below a pale sky. To the left, the language panel giving "one hundred rupees" in fifteen official languages. The denomination repeats in all four corners, with "एक सौ रुपये" and "ONE HUNDRED RUPEES" along the foot, and a clear watermark window at the right.
In circulation
The hundred-rupee note of the Mahatma Gandhi series, introduced in 1996 to replace the older Ashoka Pillar design, and printed in this form for roughly a decade before dated issues appeared. It stayed legal tender through the 2016 withdrawal of the 500 and 1000, and was gradually displaced by the lavender Mahatma Gandhi New Series 100 from 2018.
Details
- IssuerReserve Bank of India
- CurrencyRupee (₹)
- DenominationOne Hundred Rupees
- Collectedon the India journeys, 1992–2018
- SeriesMahatma Gandhi series, no date printed
- SignatureGovernor, Reserve Bank of India, at lower centre
- WatermarkMahatma Gandhi portrait with electrotype 100 in the clear window
- SecurityWindowed security thread, latent 100 in the vertical band beside the portrait, intaglio printing
- Dimensions157 × 73 mm