diff --git a/src/mcp/shared/session.py b/src/mcp/shared/session.py
index 51d1f64e02..94b340372f 100644
--- a/src/mcp/shared/session.py
+++ b/src/mcp/shared/session.py
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ async def send_notification(
         """
         # Some transport implementations may need to set the related_request_id
         # to attribute to the notifications to the request that triggered them.
+        # Note: notification already has jsonrpc="2.0" from base Notification class
         jsonrpc_notification = JSONRPCNotification(
-            jsonrpc="2.0",
             **notification.model_dump(by_alias=True, mode="json", exclude_none=True),
         )
         session_message = SessionMessage(  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/src/mcp/types.py b/src/mcp/types.py
index 6fc551035b..b91b8f3f31 100644
--- a/src/mcp/types.py
+++ b/src/mcp/types.py
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ class PaginatedRequest(Request[PaginatedRequestParams | None, MethodT], Generic[
 class Notification(MCPModel, Generic[NotificationParamsT, MethodT]):
     """Base class for JSON-RPC notifications."""
 
+    jsonrpc: Literal["2.0"] = "2.0"
     method: MethodT
     params: NotificationParamsT
 
@@ -142,7 +143,6 @@ class JSONRPCRequest(Request[dict[str, Any] | None, str]):
 class JSONRPCNotification(Notification[dict[str, Any] | None, str]):
     """A notification which does not expect a response."""
 
-    jsonrpc: Literal["2.0"]
     params: dict[str, Any] | None = None