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Paisa (also transliterated as pice, pesa, poysha, poisha and baisa) is a monetary unit in several countries.The word is also a generalised idiom for money and wealth. In India, Nepal, and Pakistan, the paisa currently equals 1 ⁄ 100 of a rupee.
Until the Liberation War in Bangladesh in 1971, the Pakistani rupee was the currency of the country. Bangladeshi currency was first issued on March 4, 1972 after the independence of Bangladesh. [2] The official currency was named Taka, later "৳" was designated as the symbol of Taka. The minimum unit of money fixed is one rupee.
The Pakistani rupee also bore the word taka on official notes and coins. Bangla was one of the two national languages of the Pakistan union between 1956 and 1971 (the other being Urdu). The Bangladeshi taka came into existence since 1972, a year after the independence of the eastern wing of the union, as the independent nation of Bangladesh .
The Indian One Paisa coin (Hindi: पैसा) is a former denomination of the Indian Rupee. The 1 coin equals 1 ⁄ 100 (one-hundredth) of the Indian Rupee. The symbol for paisa is (). In 1955, India adopted metric system for coinage and amended the "Indian Coinage Act".
In India slang names for coins are more common than for the currency notes. For 5 paisa (100 paisa is equal to 1 Indian rupee) it is panji. A 10 paisa coin is called dassi and for 20 paisa it is bissi. A 25 paisa coin is called chavanni (equal to 4 annas) and 50 paisa is athanni (8 annas). However, in recent years, due to inflation, the use of ...
100 Nepal: Nepalese rupee: रु NPR Paisa: 100 Indian rupee ₹ INR Paisa: 100 Netherlands [F] Euro € EUR Cent: 100 New Caledonia: CFP franc ₣ XPF Centime: 100 New Zealand: New Zealand dollar $ NZD Cent: 100 Nicaragua: Nicaraguan córdoba: C$ NIO Centavo: 100 Niger: West African CFA franc: F.CFA XOF Centime: 100 Nigeria: Nigerian naira ...
The taka was traditionally equal to one silver rupee in Islamic Bengal. [6] In 1338, Ibn Battuta noticed that the silver taka was the most popular currency in the region instead of the Islamic dinar. [7] In 1415, members of Admiral Zheng He's entourage also noticed the dominance of the taka.
An anna (or ānna) was a currency unit formerly used in British India, equal to 1 ⁄ 16 of a rupee. [1] It was subdivided into four pices or twelve pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise , one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise .