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A Bhopal State postage stamp worth 1 anna and three pies. A pie (abbreviated as Ps) was a unit of currency in India, Burma and Pakistan until 1947. It was the smallest currency unit, equal to 1 ⁄ 3 of a pice, 1 ⁄ 12 of an anna or 1 ⁄ 192 of a rupee. During the mid-nineteenth century, one pie was worth 12 cowry. [1]
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.
Emblem of India: Value, new rupee sign, floral motif and year of minting: 2011: 2018 ₹ 5: 25 mm: 6.74 g: Nickel-Brass: Circular: Emblem of India: Value, rupee sign, year of issue, grains depicting the agricultural dominance of the country: 2019 ₹ 10: 27 mm: 7.62 g: Bimetallic: Circular: Emblem of India and year of minting Value with outward ...
The basic unit of currency was the Indian rupee, which was itself divided into annas (16 annas to a rupee) and pice (the old spelling of paisa – 64 pice to a rupee). [9] The lowest-denomination Indian coins, the half-pice (128 to a rupee) and the pie (192 to a rupee) were officially demonetized in 1947; while both denominations had continued ...
This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
Coins were issued in copper (later bronze) for denominations of 1 and 2 pai and 1 ⁄ 2 anna, in cupro-nickel (later bronze) for 1 anna and in silver for 2, 4 and 8 annas and 1 rupee. Hyderabad was the only Indian princely state that was permitted to continue issuing its notes after it was subjected to join the Dominion of India in 1948 and the ...
Prior to 1957, the Indian rupee was not decimalised. From 1835 to 1957, the rupee was divided into 16 annas. Each anna was further divided into four Indian paises (pice) and each paise into three Indian pies till 1947 when the pice was demonetised. In 1955, the Parliament of India amended the "Indian Coinage Act" to
Face value, year and value in Hindi (रूपये का बीसवाँ भाग; Eng: Twentieth of a rupee) The Indian five naye paise ( Hindi : पाँच नए पैसे ) (singular: Paisa ), was a unit of currency equaling 1 ⁄ 20 of the Indian rupee .