₹100 Mahatma Gandhi New Series · 6CT* 180205

This is a ₹100 note of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series, carrying the serial number 6CT 180205 — the prefix 6CT 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 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 4 different dates — 18-02-2005, 18-02-1905, 05-02-2018 and 05-02-1918. 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.