Exclusive 21 ways to make sure your New Rs 2000, Rs 500 notes are Genuine.

People are trying to swap their old notes for smaller bills and for new 500 and 2,000 rupee
notes, which are being rushed into circulation and are designed to be harder to forge.

The Rs 2,000 notes, which are being introduced for the first time, will be of magenta colour with Mangalyaan imprinted on the reverse side. The higher value currency notes will have other designs, geometric patterns aligning with the overall colour scheme both on the obverse and reverse.

The new denomination has motif of the Mangalayan on the reverse, depicting the country’s first venture in interplanetary space.

The Rs 500 banknotes will be stone grey in colour with a predominant new theme of the Indian heritage site Red Fort.

Here’s a look at the distinguishing features of the new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes that banks have started dispensing
 1  See through register with denominational numeral
 2  Latent image with denominational numeral
 3  Denominational numeral in Devnagari
 4  Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at the centre
 5  Micro letters ‘RBI’ and Rs ‘2000’ on the left side of the banknote
 6  Windowed security thread with inscriptions ‘Bharat’ in Devanagari, RBI and numeral with colour shift. Colour of the thread changes from green to blue when the note is tilted
 7  Guarantee Clause, Governor’s signature with Promise Clause and RBI emblem towards the right
 8  Mahatma Gandhi portrait and electrotype watermarks
 9  Number panel with numerals growing from small to big on the top left side and bottom right side
 10  Denominational numeral with rupee symbol, the numeral in colour changing ink (green to blue) on bottom right
 11  Ashoka Pillar emblem on the right
 12  Horizontal rectangle with Rs 2000 in raised print on the right
 13  Seven angular bleed lines on the left and right side in raised print
 14  Year of printing of the note on the left
 15  Swachh Bharat logo with slogan
 16  Language panel towards the centre
 17  Motif of Mangalyaan
 18  Denomination numeral in Devnagari on right
 19  Circle with Rs 500 in raised print on the right
 20  Five angular bleed lines on left and right side in raised print
 21  Red Fort: an image of the Indian heritage site with Indian flag

BASE COLOUR OF THE RS 2000 NOTE IS MAGENTA, SIZE: 66MM x 166MM

BASE COLOUR OF THE RS 500 NOTE IS STONE GREY, SIZE: 63MM x 150MM

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