The perfect guide to collect Notes of India

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The Perfect Guide to Collect Notes of India
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• Indian notes can be broadly classified into five
  categories namely, Early banknotes of India,
  British India notes, Princely state issues,
  colonial issues and Republic of India notes.
• Old notes of India issued by bank of Bengal, bank
  of Bombay and bank of Madras circulated only
  within the three respective presidencies.

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• Currency notes in India during the times of
  British Raj depicted the portraits of Kings and
  Queens like Queen Victoria, King George V and
  King George VI.
• Some of the portrait notes of Queen Victoria were
  unifaced, which means they were printed only on
  ones side.

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• Princely state issues included Osmania notes of
  Hyderabad. They were issued in various
  denominations like 1 rupee, 5 rupees, 10 rupees,
  100 rupees and 1000 rupees.
• Colonial notes of India comprise of Indo-French
  and Indo-Portuguese issues. Some of these rare
  notes of India featured beautiful vignettes and
  portraits.

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• Republic Notes of India can be further classified
  as the ones issued by Government of India,
  Reserve Bank of India, Persian Gulf Issues and
  Hajj Pilgrim issues.
• The Government of India has only issued 1 rupee
  banknotes so far while all the remaining notes
  are released by the Reserve Bank of India.

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• By studying these notes of India right from early
  banknotes to the republic of India issues, one
  can learn about Indias history in detail.
• Apart from that, some of these rare notes of
  India have been auctioned for high values all
  over the world, making them even more desirable
  among collectors.