₹50 — Fifty Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mahatma Gandhi at the right, from the familiar 1946 portrait, smiling in glasses and shawl. Above, "Reserve Bank of India" in Devanagari and English with "Guaranteed by the Central Government"; a large ornamented 50 sits in a floral cartouche at the centre, with the promise to pay fifty rupees in Hindi and English below. The Lion Capital of Ashoka stands at the lower left, above the Governor's signature and red serial numbers.
Back: The Parliament House in New Delhi — Sansad Bhavan, its colonnaded circular drum ringed by pillars, the national flag flying from the dome — set in an engraved frame of scrollwork and flowers. The language panel at the left gives the denomination in India's official languages; the clear watermark window occupies the right, with "50" and "Fifty Rupees" in Devanagari and English along the foot.
In circulation
Part of the Mahatma Gandhi series that replaced the older Ashoka Pillar notes from 1996; this design of the fifty circulated into the 2010s, when the Mahatma Gandhi New Series fifty of 2017, smaller and fluorescent blue with the Hampi chariot on the reverse, superseded it. Older notes remain legal tender.
Details
- IssuerReserve Bank of India
- CurrencyRupee (₹)
- DenominationFifty Rupees
- Collectedon the India journeys, 1992–2018
- SeriesMahatma Gandhi series
- SignatureGovernor, Reserve Bank of India
- SecurityWindowed security thread; watermark panel at right of the reverse