2 Rupees

Obverse © KRISHNA KAMESWAR@NPSEG – Reverse © NADIMPALLI RAMARAJU

Features

Issuer	India
Bank emisyjny	भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक
Period	Republic (1950-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1965
Value	2 Rupees (2 INR)
Currency	Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date)
Composition	Papier
Size	114 × 64 mm
Shape	Prostokątny
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 203521
References	P# 31 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

(en) White space on the left for watermark. On the right, the Lion Capital of Ashoka. All over an intricate olive Green & light brown background

Scripts: Devanagari, łaciński

Lettering:
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER
ON DEMAND THE SUM OF
TWO RUPEES
DO ROOPAYE
AT ANY OFFICE OF THE ISSUE
FOR THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
(SIGNATURE)
GOVERNOR

Reverse

(en) Tiger bust facing right
Two Rupee – Multilingual Depiction on Currency Note
(13 Indian Languages – excluding Hindi and English)

• Assamese: দুই টকা
• Bengali: দুই টাকা
• Gujarati: બે રૂપિયા
• Kannada: ಎರಡು ರೂಪಾಯಿ
• Kashmiri: دو روپیہ
• Konkani: दोन रुपये
• Malayalam: രണ്ട് രൂപ
• Marathi: दोन रुपये
• Nepali: दुई रुपैयाँ
• Oriya (Odia): ଦୁଇ ଟଙ୍କା
• Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਦੋ ਰੁਪਏ
• Sanskrit: द्वे रूप्यके
• Tamil: இரண்டு ரூபாய்
• Telugu: రెండు రూపాయలు
• Urdu: دو روپیہ

Scripts: bengalski, Devanagari, Gudźarati, Kannada, łaciński, Malajalam, Orija, tamilski, Telugu, urdu, Gurmukhi

Lettering:
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
TWO RUPEES

Watermark

Stolica Lwa Aśoki Automatically translated

Signature

Paresh Chandra Bhattacharya (PCB), Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Comments

(en)

Lion Capital Series were a series of currency notes issued after India declared its independence from Great Britain and used until the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the Mahatma Gandhi Series in 1996 with banknotes in denominations of 10 and 500 rupees, and were designed with the image of the Lion Capital of Ashoka

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Date	Signatures				VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1965)	PCB					$ 3.00	$ 5.00	$ 5.90	$ 7.90	$ 7.90

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