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The United States, India [7] and the Philippines use " " in the serial number to mark a replacement banknote. These are known as "star notes". These were also used by Australia until 1972. Canada used " " at the beginning of serial numbers on its replacement banknotes until 1975. They are known as "asterisk notes".
In 1957, India shifted to the decimal system, though for a short period of time, both decimal and non-decimal coins were in circulation. To distinguish between the two versions of pice coins in circulation (pre-decimal and decimal), the coins minted between 1957 and 1964 were printed with the legend “Naya Paisa” (“New Paisa”). [ 4 ]
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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 .
In 1955, India adopted metric system for coinage and amended the "Indian Coinage Act". Subsequently, one paisa coins were introduced on 1 April 1957. From 1957 to 1964, one paisa coin was called "Naya Paisa" ( Hindi : नया पैसा ) (English: New Paisa ) and on 1 June 1964, the term "Naya" was dropped and the denomination was simply ...
The Indian One Naya paisa (Hindi: एक नया पैसा) was a unit of currency equaling 1 ⁄ 100 (one-hundredth) of the Indian rupee. The symbol for paisa is p. In 1955, India adopted metric system for coinage and amended the "Indian Coinage Act". Subsequently, one paisa coins were introduced on 1 April 1957.
April 1 - Second Nehru ministry adopts Decimalisation of Indian rupee and discontinue the concept of anna coin system. [2] April 5 – First elected government of Kerala. Communist Party of India won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala. [3] August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup ...
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. Paisa coins were introduced in 1957, but from 1957 to 1964 the coin was called "Naya Paisa" (English: New Paisa). On 1 June 1964 ...