500 Rupees Dated Reverse, no Rupee Symbol

Features

Issuer	India
Issuing bank	Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक)
Ruling authority	Republic (1950-date)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	2005-2012
Value	500 Rupees (500 INR)
Currency	Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date)
Composition	Paper (Cotton paper)
Size	165 × 77 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	8 November 2016
Number	N# 202275
References	P# 99 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (5 volumes).

Obverse

Black, dark grey, and dark brown on yellow, pale orange, and tan undeprint; serial numbers red.
Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi on the right. RBI coat of arms on bottom-right corner.
Lion capital of Asoka column at right lower corner (now in Sarnath Museum)

Scripts: Devanagari, Latin

Lettering:
भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
केन्द्रीय सरकार द्वारा प्रत्याभूत
GUARANTEED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
500
पाँच सौ रुपये
मैं धारक को पाँच सौ रुपये अदा करने का बचन देता हूँ।
I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES
महात्मा गांधीㅤㅤMAHATMA GANDHI

Reverse

Scene of the Dandi March of 1930, featuring Gandhi & his followers in peaceful protest against the British salt monopoly
Denominations written in the panel of the 15 other official languages of India written in small text on the language panel to the left: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

Scripts: Arabic, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu

Lettering:
500 भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक 500

পাঁচশ টকা
পাঁচশ টাকা
પાંચ સો રૂપિયા
ಐದು ನೂರು ರೂಪಾಯಿಗಳು
پانٛژھ ہَتھ رۄپیہِ
पाचशें रुपया
അഞ്ഞൂറു രൂപ
पाचशे रुपये
पाँच सय रुपियाँ
ପାଞ୍ଚ ଶତ ଟଙ୍କା
ਪੰਜ ਸੌ ਰੁਪਏ
पञ्चशतं रूप्यकाणि
ஐந்நூறு ரூபாய்
ఐదువందల రూపాయలు
پانچ سو روپیے

500 पाँच सौ रुपये FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES

Watermark

Mahatma Gandhi and electrotype denomination 500

Signatures

Y. Venugopal Reddy (YVR)	Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Duvvuri Subbarao (DS)	Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Printer

Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India, India (2006-date)

Comments

Plate letter, if present, appears behind serial numbers.

UV activity:

Security thread:

Windowed into six sections on the obverse side, when seen under a backlight, the inscription of “RBI भारत” is repeated throughout.

The security thread also has a multicolour tone, the colours switch between emerald green, turquoise, and blue when the note is tilted under different light conditions and angles.

The large denomination “500” at centre on the obverse side is printed in colour-shifting ink, changes colours from between two different shades of green and turquoise:

Latent image in the grey space next to Gandhi's portrait - denomination “500” can be seen when looked at closely or the note is tilted:

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Date	Signatures	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
2005							P#99a No Plate Letter	5%
2005							P#99c Plate Letter R	0.7%
2006							P#99 g Plate Letter R	1.3%
2006							P#99d No Plate Letter	9%
2006							P#99e Plate Letter E	0.5%
2006	YVR						P#99f Plate letter L, signature: Y M Reddy P-99f	1.0%
2007							P#99h No Plate Letter	9%
2007							P#99i Plate Letter E	1.0%
2007	YVR			$ 3.40			P#99j Plate letter L, signature: Y M Reddy	4%
2007							P#99k Plate letter R, signature: Y M Reddy	6%
2008	YVR			$ 6.30			P#99l No Plate letter , signature: Y M Reddy	10%
2008	YVR						P#99m plate letter L, signature: Y M Reddy, ref P#99m	8%
2008	YVR						P#99o Plate letter R, signature: Y M Reddy	10%
2008							Plate Letter E	0.5%
2009	DS		$ 6.40	$ 6.40	$ 6.40	$ 6.40	P#99p No plate letter, signature: Subba Rao	15%
2009	DS					$ 6.70	P#99q Plate Letter E	4%
2009	DS					$ 6.70	P#99r Plate letter L, signature: Subba Rao	12%
2009	DS		$ 3.40				P#99s Plate Letter R	7%
2010	DS			$ 6.40	$ 6.50	$ 6.70	P#99t No Plate letter, signature: Subbarao (P-99t)	13%
2010	DS						P#99u Plate letter E, signature: Subba Rao	6%
2010	DS	$ 0.86	$ 2.60	$ 2.60			P#99v Plate letter L, signature: Subba Rao	12%
2010	DS			$ 6.40			P#99w Plate letter R, signature: Subba Rao	8%
2011							P#99aa Plate Letter R	1.3%
2011	DS		$ 1.40	$ 3.00	$ 4.70	$ 6.50	P#99x No Plate Letter, signature Subba Rao	16%
2011	DS						P#99y Plate letter E, signature: Subba Rao	3%
2011							P#99z Plate Letter L	0.7%
2012							P#99ab Plate Letter E	9%

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