₹500 Mahatma Gandhi New Series · 3FM 020375

This is a ₹500 note of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series, carrying the serial number 3FM 020375 — the prefix 3FM identifies the print run it came from.

The condition is stated by the seller as AU — about uncirculated — crisp, with at most the faintest evidence of handling. Grading on Rare Minting is the seller’s own assessment rather than a certification by us, and the photographs above are the evidence: they are of this note, not a stock image of the type.

Read as a date, the digits of this serial spell 2 different dates — 02-03-1975 and 03-02-1975. That is what makes a note like this a gift rather than a purchase: somebody’s birthday, an anniversary, or the day a business was founded, printed on currency years before it mattered to them.

Payment for this note is held until it reaches you and the inspection window closes, so the seller is paid after delivery rather than before. If it arrives and the serial is not the one shown, or the condition is materially worse than stated, that is a claim rather than an argument.