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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.
Fixed currency (alphabetical order) Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin
At the end of the 19th century, the Indian silver rupee went onto a gold exchange standard at a fixed rate of one rupee to one shilling and fourpence in British currency, i.e. 15 rupees to 1 pound sterling.
Meanwhile, on 19 April 1931, Iraq, which had emerged as a British Mandate on the territory of Mesopotamia, adopted the Iraqi dinar at a 1:1 parity with the pound sterling, to replace the Indian rupee. This 1:1 parity with sterling continued until 18 November 1967 when Harold Wilson devalued the pound.
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [3] The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4]
The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning 'by weight'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The currency's symbol is ' £ ' , a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' ( L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} ) (from libra ), crossed to indicate abbreviation.
The dollar-pound exchange rate then was $4.03 to the pound, which in effect gave a rupee-dollar rate in 1947 of around ₹3.30. [24] [25] The pound was devalued in 1949, changing its parity from 4.03 to 2.80. India was then a part of the sterling area, and the rupee was devalued on the same day by the same percentage so that the new dollar ...
Alderney pound – Alderney (commemorative, not an independent currency) Anglo-Saxon pound – Anglo-Saxon England; Australian pound – Australia; Bahamian pound – Bahamas; Bermudian pound – Bermuda; Biafran pound – Biafra; British West African pound – Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone; Canadian pound ...