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Year of minting Comments Obverse Reverse Weight Diameter Thickness Metal Edge Obverse Reverse First Last 17: 4.05 g: 22 mm: 2.2 mm: Cupronickel: Smooth: State Emblem of India & country name in Hindi and English. Face-value, year and lettering रूपये का बीसवाँ भाग; (E: 20th part of a rupee) 1964: 1966 [3] [6] 18.1 ...
Prior to 1957, Indian rupee was not decimalised and the rupee from 1835 to 1957 AD was further divided into 16 annas. Each anna was further divided to four Indian pices and each pice into three Indian pies till 1947 when the pie was demonetized. In 1955, India amended the "Indian Coinage Act" to adopt the metric system for coinage.
A 20 paisa coin was minted in 1968. Neither of these coins gained much popularity. The 1, 2 and 3 paisa coins were phased out gradually in the 1970s. In 1982, a new 2 rupee coin was introduced experimentally to replace 2 rupee notes. The 2 rupee coin was not minted again till 1990, after which it was minted every following year.
The Indian 5-rupee note (₹5) 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. [ 1 ] The printing of notes in the denominations of ₹5 , however, has been discontinued [ citation needed ] as these denominations have been coinised but ...
Banknotes of the Indian rupee include: Lion Capital Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed between 1962 and 2000. Mahatma Gandhi Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed between 1996 and 2018. Mahatma Gandhi New Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed from 2016 to present.
The Indian 5 rupee coin is a denomination of the Indian rupee. The ₹ 5 coin was the highest denominated coin in the country until the minting of the ₹ 10 in 2005. Design of the coin
From 1957 to 1964, the paisa was called naya paisa (transl. 'new paisa') to distinguish it from the old paisa/pice which was a 1 ⁄ 64 subdivision of the Indian Rupee. On 1 June 1964, the term "naya" was dropped and the denomination was named paisa .
The Reserve Bank of India began banknote production in 1938, issuing ₹ 2, ₹ 5, ₹ 10, ₹ 50, ₹ 100, ₹ 1,000 and ₹ 10,000 notes while the government continued issuing ₹ 1 note but demonetized the ₹ 500 and ₹ 2 1 ⁄ 2 notes.