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For example: 150,000 rupees is "1.5 lakh rupees" which can be written as "1,50,000 rupees", and 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees is referred to as "3 crore rupees" which can be written as "3,00,00,000 rupees". There are names for numbers larger than crore, but they are less commonly used.
In India slang names for coins are more common than for the currency notes. For 5 paisa (100 paisa is equal to 1 Indian rupee) it is panji. A 10 paisa coin is called dassi and for 20 paisa it is bissi. A 25 paisa coin is called chavanni (equal to 4 annas) and 50 paisa is athanni (8 annas). However, in recent years, due to inflation, the use of ...
The Indian rupee was the official currency of Dubai and Qatar until 1959, when India created a new Gulf rupee (also known as the "external rupee") to hinder the smuggling of gold. [16] The Gulf rupee was legal tender until 1966, when India significantly devalued the Indian rupee and a new Qatar-Dubai riyal was established to provide economic ...
2023 – Reserve Bank of India issued a circular on 19 May stating currency notes of ₹ 2000 denomination will be withdrawn from circulation [90] The reason given for this withdrawal is the decline in the number of currency notes in circulation. According to the circular, there were only 10.8% of Notes in Circulation on March 31, 2023.
Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...
The RBI announced the specifications of the new denomination of the ₹200 note in the Mahatma Gandhi New Series, bearing the signature of Dr. Urjit R. Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, on 25 August 2017. [5] The Reserve Bank of India has also issued ₹ 10 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi New Series. [6]
In the abbreviated form, usage such as "₹ 5L" or "₹ 5 lac" (for "5 lakh rupees") is common. [4] In this system of numeration, 100 lakh is called one crore [3] and is equal to 10 million. Formal written publications in English in India tend to use lakh/crore for Indian currency and Western numbering for foreign currencies, such as dollars ...
Chaulukya coins were often called "Gadhaiya Paise" (9th–10th century CE). [4] Until the 1950s in India and Pakistan (and before 1947 in British India), the paisa (back then spelled as pice in English) was equivalent to 3 pies, 1 ⁄ 4 of an anna, or 1 ⁄ 64 of a rupee.