₹10 — Ten Rupees
The artwork
Front: Mahatma Gandhi in three-quarter profile, smiling in his shawl and round spectacles, set against a ground of fine guilloche and floral engraving. The Reserve Bank of India's name sits across the top in Hindi and English with the guarantee clause beneath, and the promise to pay the bearer ten rupees runs down the centre over the Governor's signature. The Lion Capital of Ashoka stands at right beside the large ₹10; the serial number appears twice.
Back: The great stone chariot wheel of the Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha, carved in the thirteenth century and used here as the national motif, with the temple's sculpted friezes and a procession of animals along the lower border. At the left, the denomination in fifteen languages, the year of printing, and the Swachh Bharat device — Gandhi's spectacles with the slogan 'एक कदम स्वच्छता की ओर'.
In circulation
Part of the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, with this chocolate-brown ten first issued in January 2018 to replace the older Gandhi-series ten with its fauna reverse. It remains legal tender and in everyday circulation, printed afresh each year with the sitting Governor's signature, though the ten-rupee coin now does much of the same work.
Details
- IssuerReserve Bank of India, guaranteed by the Central Government
- CurrencyRupee (₹)
- DenominationTen Rupees
- Collectedon the India journeys, 1992–2026
- SeriesMahatma Gandhi (New) Series, ₹10, dated 2025
- SignatureSanjay Malhotra, Governor
- WatermarkMahatma Gandhi portrait with electrotype 10
- SecurityWindowed security thread; see-through register; ascending-size serial number with two-figure and letter prefix
- Dimensions123 × 63 mm