Old Notes of Republic India Featuring Animals

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Old Notes of Republic India Featuring Animals
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• Lets explore some old notes of Republic India
  that featured animals on them. The first example
  is this 2 Rupees note issued in 1950 featuring a
  Bengal Tiger on the reverse side.
• These old currency banknotes had the dimension
  11.4 X 6.4 centimetres and featured the signature
  of Governor B. Rama Rau. It was printed using
  multiple colours such as Red, Brown, Violet and
  Green

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• The second example - 5 Rupees notes of republic
  India issued in the year 1949, featuring three
  Indian black bucks or antelopes in central panel
  of the reverse side.
• This republic India note had a dimension of 12.8
  X 7.3 centimetres and bore the signature of
  Governor B. Rama Rau. It did not have any inset
  letter and the language panel featured text in 8
  languages - Urdu, Hindi, Bangla, Telugu, Tamil,
  Kannada, Gujarati and Oriya.

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• The third example - 100 rupees old currency
  banknotes issued in the year 1950 featuring a
  vignette depicting two tusked Elephants in the
  centre of the reverse side.
• These old republic India notes had a dimension of
  17.1 X 10.7 centimetres and bore the signature of
  Governor B. Rama Rau. They did not feature any
  inset number and were printed using multiple
  colours such as Indigo, Violet and Green.

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• The next example is a green coloured 100 rupees
  Persian issue released in the year 1959,
  featuring two tusked elephants on the vignette of
  the reverse side.
• These notes of republic India were issued for
  Bombay circle and bore the signature of Governor
  H V R Iyengar. The promise text on this note
  reads "I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE
  SUM OF ONE HUNDRED RUPEES AT THE OFFICE OF ISSUE
  AT BOMBAY".

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• The final example is a red coloured 100 Rupees
  republic India note issued in the year 1959
  featuring two tusked elephants on the reverse
  side.
• These notes of republic India were issued for
  Bombay circle and featured the prefix 'HA'. They
  were exclusively issued only once to the Haj
  pilgrims. The promise text on these republic
  India notes read "I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON
  DEMAND THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED RUPEES AT THE
  OFFICE OF ISSUE AT BOMBAY".