Indian 5-rupee note
The Indian 5-rupee note is the second smallest Indian note in circulation. The Reserve [Bank of India] introduced the 5 rupee banknote as part of the Mahatma Gandhi Series in 1996. The printing of notes in the denominations of, however, has been discontinued as these denominations have been coinised but still these notes are valid legal tender in India.As like the other Indian rupee banknotes, the 5 banknote has its amount written in 17 languages. On the obverse, the denomination is written in English and Hindi. On the reverse is a language panel which displays the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 List of [official languages of India|official languages of India]. The languages are displayed in alphabetical order. Languages included on the panel are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.