Take a look at the new lavender coloured 100-rupee notes

Reserve Bank of India is soon going to launch lavender-coloured new hundred rupees note. This new design of Rs 100 will join the list of new designs of Rs 200, Rs 500, Rs 10 issued in last couple of years.

The RBI statement says, “The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue RS 100 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, bearing signature of Dr Urjit R Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India.”

The new denomination is suppose to have Motif of “RANI KI VAV” on the reverse which will depict the country’s cultural heritage. The note is of lavender colour. The note will be witnessed with other designs as well, like geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme, both at the obverse and reverse.

The RBI also cleared doubts with the earlier series of Rs 100 which says that the previous series will also continue to be legal tender. It is also said that there are 16 salient features in the note.

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The front features are as follows:

1. See-through register with denominational numeral 100

2. Latent image with denominational numeral 100

3. Denominational numeral १०० in Devnagari

4. Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre

5. Micro letters ‘RBI’, ‘भारत’, ‘India’ and ‘100’

6. Windowed security thread with inscriptions ‘भारत’ and RBI with colour shift; Colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted

7. Guarantee Clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards right of Mahatma Gandhi portrait

8. Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right

9. Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype (100) watermarks

10. Number panel with numerals in ascending font on the top left side and bottom right side

11. For visually impaired intaglio or raised printing of Mahatma Gandhi portrait, Ashoka Pillar emblem, raised triangular identification mark with micro-text 100, four angular bleed lines both on the right and left sides

Where as the back side features are as follows:

1. Year of printing of the note on the left

2. Swachh Bharat logo with slogan

3. Language panel

4. Motif of RANI KI VAV

5. Denominational numeral १०० in Devnagari

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