Notes

5,000 and 10,000 rupees notes were in circulation between 1954 and 1978

After Independence, Pakistan used Indian Rupee notes stamped with 'Pakistan' until it could print enough.

The rupee was the currency of several other countries like Aden, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, Kenya, Uganda, the Seychelles and Mauritius in the early 20th Century.

At one time, 5 rupee coins were smuggled to Bangladesh for making razors.

Cost of minting a 10 Rupee coin is 6.10 Rupees

Apart from Hindi and English which appear on the front side of a note, 15 other languages appear on the reverse side.

If you have a torn note, or more than 51% of its torn part, you can exchange it for a new one at a bank.

In 1917, the Rupee was mightier than the $.
1 INR = 13 USD to be precise.

All notes carry an imprint of something Indian. Like the 20INR note carries the imprint of the Andaman Islands.

Zero rupee notes were issued by the NGO 5th Pillar to fight corruption.

Kashmir was bought by the then Hindu rulers in the mid 19th century for a scanty 7.5 million rupees

At one point there were two currencies operating in India. It was Hyderabadi Rupee from 1918 to 1959. It coexisted with Indian rupee from 1950

In 1862, new coins were introduced which were known as regal issues. These bore an image of Queen Victoria and the name ‘India’. After independence, the first coin in India was issued in 1950.

Banknotes in circulation: 73517 million pieces of value Rs. 11648 billion. Coins in circulation: 84727 million pieces of value Rs. 153 billion

As we all know that Rs.1000/- is largest/ biggest denomination of today, but before independence — 10,000 and 5000 rupees currency notes were existed. RBI was demonetize all such notes in 1938, and reissued it in 1954 and once again demonetized in 1978.

On Indian Rupees you can’t find these “I, J, O, X, Y, Z” alphabets / letters on the number panel. As in these case RBI only have twenty alphabets are used as insets. For security reasons, Reserve Bank of India doesn’t reveal which inset alphabet/ letters are assigned for which printing press.

Did you know that life of a banknote is only 9-10 months average ?

Our Indian currency have Braille signs to help the visually challenged, which gives hope to the blind –identify currency note. There were identification mark’s on the left side of banknote, which have different shapes for 1000, 500, 100, 50, 20 and 10 as Diamond, Circle, Triangle, Square, Rectangle and None respectively.

RBI minted special coins to celebrate anniversary, centenary etc. For the first time, coins of 75, 150 and 1000 were minted — to celebrate and honor the Reserve Bank of India’s platinum jubilee, 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore and 1000 years of Brihadeeswarar Temple respectively.

One each and every bank note the back side, the amount is written in 17 different languages of India. Where you can find only 15 languages, so where the other 2 are written.

Only Re. 1 notes and coins in India are signed by the Finance Secretary as they are printed by the Central Government. All other Indian currency notes in India are printed by RBI.

In 2010 Indian rupee symbol “” was adopted. D.Udaya Kumar is the creator of the rupee symbol. The symbol was derived from Devanagari letter "र" (ra). The symbol is a combination of the Latin letter “R” and Devanagari letter “र”. The parallel line in the symbol is given to make it look like tricolor of Indian national flag.

At the time of independence, the division of the rupee was in annas. 16 annas used to make one rupee. Theanna was further divided into 4 paisas or 12 pies. Nowadays, the rupee is divided into paisa and 1 rupee is equal to 100 paisa. The decimalization of the rupee took place in 1947. In this, the rupee was divided into 100 naya paisa (nayameans new). The word naya was later on dropped in 1964.