₹500 Mahatma Gandhi New Series · 8WP* 040891

This is a ₹500 note of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series, carrying the serial number 8WP 040891 — the prefix 8WP identifies the print run it came from. The star in the prefix marks it as a replacement note, printed to take the place of one spoiled during production and issued in far smaller numbers than an ordinary note of the same run. Collectors look for them specifically.

The condition is stated by the seller as UNC — uncirculated — as it left the press, with no fold, crease or 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 — 04-08-1991 and 08-04-1991. 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.