This is a 50 rupee serial packet of the star-series Mahatma Gandhi note, signed by the serving Reserve Bank of India Governor and offered in crisp GEM UNC condition. Star notes are replacement notes the Reserve Bank issues in place of misprinted ones, marked with a star in the serial panel — which makes a full star packet notably harder to assemble than an ordinary bundle.
Collectors and note dealers value complete, uncirculated packets for their unbroken serial runs and untouched paper; a full-star packet in GEM grade is prized precisely because replacement notes are printed in far smaller numbers. Condition, the signatory and whether the run is intact all shape what a bundle is worth.
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