Lot 3992

Description

Government of India, George V, ten rupees, undated (1928), SPECIAL TEN RUPEE SOUVENIR NOTE, given to those invited to the inauguration of the India Security Press, Nasik Road (North of Bombay) on April 14 1928. The note is similar in design to the previous issue, green and brown, ten rupees but the portrait is much larger and the word 'SPECIMEN' is printed in the top right and bottom right corner in red, the India Security Press Specimen logo in the bottom right corner also in red (P-; Jhun.13.4B). Banknote uncirculated, other items mostly extremely fine - uncirculated, very rare. (7)

Sold with the official inauguration folder which contains four pages of information about Indian banknotes and the India Security Press, also three photographs of the ’Currency Note Press’ building, ’The Note Checking Section’ and the ’Embossed Envelopes Department’, plus photographs of both sides of the inauguration invitiation. The note was never issued for circulation and is missing from most collections of Indian banknotes.