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Bank of Hindustan paper bank note
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Oldest coins
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The first coins were minted (made) around
2500 years ago.
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Paper money was first used in China over
1000 years ago.
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The first “rupee” was first introduced by
Sher Shah Suri. It was based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per
rupee.
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Udaya K Dharmalingam is the designer of the
Indian rupee Symbol, which was adopted by the Government of India in 2010.
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From 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently
on the new notes.
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The Government of India took over the issue
of bank notes in 1861 from the Private and Presidency Banks.
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The first series of coins with theIndian
rupee symbol was launched on 8 July, 2011.
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The first 1000 Rs Note was introduced in
2000. The first 20 Rs and 5 Rs note
was introduced in 2001.
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Decimalization started in 1957 and the rupee
was divided into 100 Naye Paise.
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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.
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In India, the first paper bank note was
published by Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
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The current Mahatma Gandhi series of bank
notes stared from 1996 with new series of 10Rs notes.
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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.
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Credit cards were first used in the United
states in the 1920's.
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