Facts About Indian Currency* The first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago.

* Paper money was first used in China over 1000 years ago.
* The first "rupee was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri. It was based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces
(paisa) per rupee.
* Udaya K Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee Symbol, which was adopted by the
Government of India in 2010.
* From 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes.
* The Government of India took over the issue of bank notes in 1861 from the Private and Presidency
Banks.
* The first series of coins with theIndian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July, 2011.
* The first 1000 Rs Note was introduced in 2000.
* The first 20 Rs and 5 Rs note was introduced in 2001.
* Decimalization started in 1957 and the rupee was divided into 100 Naye Paise.
* Total 15 Languages (Apart from English) are printed in Indian Rupee Note. They are Assamese,
Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Panjabi, Sanskrit,
Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
* In India, the first paper bank note was published by Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
* The current Mahatma Gandhi series of bank notes stared from 1996 with new series of 10Rs notes.
* Indian coins are produced in 4 cities: Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata. The coins produce from
each city puts an identification mark under the year of issue. Coins produced in Noida have a dot mark,
Mumbai have diamond mark, Hyderabad have star mark and coin produce from Kolkata have nothing
beneath the year.
* Credit cards were first used in the United States in the 1920s.
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Sheikh Irfan The first 20 Rs and 5 Rs note was introduced in 2001. Is it correct?
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Shantanu Chauhan Wrong Info! First 5 rupee note was issued on January 1938 bearing the portrait of George VI
by RBI. First 20 rupee note was introduced by the RBI in 1972 to contain the cost of production of banknotes in
circulation.
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