India issues new date (2007) Rs100 without inset letter

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What do the inset letters mean for the Indian notes and do they use letters
other than R?

Kyle.

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Kyle,

Good questions. I don't know what they are used for, but I can tell you that
they do use letters other than R.

Perhaps someone who specializes in Indian notes will explain their usage.

Now you have me curious

On 4/5/07 12:28 PM, in article , "Kyle
Mutcher" wrote:

What do the inset letters mean for the Indian notes and do they use letters
other than R?

Kyle.

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On Apr 5, 1:59 pm, "Owen W. Linzmayer" wrote:
Kyle,

Good questions. I don't know what they are used for, but I can tell you that
they do use letters other than R.

Perhaps someone who specializes in Indian notes will explain their usage.

Now you have me curious

Inset letters are used when all the numbers are exhausted and there is
need to repeat the serial number. When the design changed the first
set of notes is issues without an inset. Inset letters were always
incremented alphabetically.

Until the late 70s Inset letters were only needed for the lower
denominations 1 though 20 (1, 2, 5, 10, 20) because the prefix
contains only one letter as opposed to 2 letter for denominations 50
and also at that time lower denominations had more notes printed than
the higher ones.

Serial number format - lower denominations 99A 999999 and for higher
denominations 99AA 999999.

With the new Gandhi series (1 and 2 rupee notes are no longer printed)
the inset letters are no longer alphabetically incremented. I have no
idea why and what pattern these inset letters follow.

Hope this helps.

- Balaji

Balaji,

Thanks for the explanation. I can learn something new every day if I keep my
mind open and bother to ask questions.

So essentially it seems the inset letters serve as an adjunct to serial
number prefixes, correct?


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wrote:

On Apr 5, 1:59 pm, "Owen W. Linzmayer" wrote:
Kyle,

Good questions. I don't know what they are used for, but I can tell you that
they do use letters other than R.

Perhaps someone who specializes in Indian notes will explain their usage.

Now you have me curious

Inset letters are used when all the numbers are exhausted and there is
need to repeat the serial number. When the design changed the first
set of notes is issues without an inset. Inset letters were always
incremented alphabetically.

Until the late 70s Inset letters were only needed for the lower
denominations 1 though 20 (1, 2, 5, 10, 20) because the prefix
contains only one letter as opposed to 2 letter for denominations 50
and also at that time lower denominations had more notes printed than
the higher ones.

Serial number format - lower denominations 99A 999999 and for higher
denominations 99AA 999999.

With the new Gandhi series (1 and 2 rupee notes are no longer printed)
the inset letters are no longer alphabetically incremented. I have no
idea why and what pattern these inset letters follow.

Hope this helps.

- Balaji

Thanks for the answer, this has made me more interested in the Indian note
series. I've noticed in the past while that it seemed that "R" was being
used for the inset letter across the series.

Best regards,
Kyle.

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On Apr 5, 1:59 pm, "Owen W. Linzmayer" wrote:
Kyle,

Good questions. I don't know what they are used for, but I can tell you
that
they do use letters other than R.

Perhaps someone who specializes in Indian notes will explain their
usage.

Now you have me curious

Inset letters are used when all the numbers are exhausted and there is
need to repeat the serial number. When the design changed the first
set of notes is issues without an inset. Inset letters were always
incremented alphabetically.

Until the late 70s Inset letters were only needed for the lower
denominations 1 though 20 (1, 2, 5, 10, 20) because the prefix
contains only one letter as opposed to 2 letter for denominations 50
and also at that time lower denominations had more notes printed than
the higher ones.

Serial number format - lower denominations 99A 999999 and for higher
denominations 99AA 999999.

With the new Gandhi series (1 and 2 rupee notes are no longer printed)
the inset letters are no longer alphabetically incremented. I have no
idea why and what pattern these inset letters follow.

Hope this helps.

- Balaji

On Apr 7, 12:28 pm, "Owen W. Linzmayer"
wrote:
Balaji,

Thanks for the explanation. I can learn something new every day if I keep my
mind open and bother to ask questions.

So essentially it seems the inset letters serve as an adjunct to serial
number prefixes, correct?

That is correct.

- Balaji