Signature Sets
Notes grouped by the signature they carry, so a set shows the issues of successive signing authorities side by side.
Collecting by signature
Signature collecting is the backbone of Indian banknote collecting. Each Governor of the Reserve Bank signs the notes issued during their tenure, so the signature dates a note precisely and gives a collection a natural structure: one note per signature, in order.
The one rupee note is the exception worth knowing — it is issued by the Government of India and carries the Finance Secretary's signature rather than the Governor's, which makes it a parallel series of its own.
How sets are built
- One denomination, all signatures — the classic project.
- One signature, all denominations — a cross-section of a single tenure.
- With inset varieties — going a level deeper within each signature.
- In uniform condition — the harder and more satisfying version of any set.