- The
first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago. - Paper
money was first used in China over 1000 years ago. - The
first “rupee” was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri. It was based on
a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per rupee. - Udaya
K Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee Symbol, which was
adopted by the Government of India in 2010. - From
1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes. - The
Government of India took over the issue of bank notes in 1861 from the
Private and Presidency Banks. - The
first series of coins with theIndian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July,
2011. - The
first 1000 Rs Note was introduced in 2000. - The
first 20 Rs and 5 Rs note was introduced in 2001. - Decimalization
started in 1957 and the rupee was divided into 100 Naye Paise. - Total
15 Languages (Apart from English) are printed in Indian Rupee Note. They
are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam,
Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. - In
India, the first paper bank note was published by Bank of Hindustan in
1770. - The
current Mahatma Gandhi series of bank notes stared from 1996 with new
series of 10Rs notes. - Indian
coins are produced in 4 cities: Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata. The
coins produce from each city puts an identification mark under the year of
issue. Coins produced in Noida have a dot mark, Mumbai have diamond mark,
Hyderabad have star mark and coin produce from Kolkata have nothing
beneath the year. - Credit
cards were first used in the United States in the 1920’s.
