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The data on exchange rate for Japanese Yen is in per 100 Yen. The end year rate for 1998–99 pertain to March 26, 1999 of Deutsche Mark rate. Data from 1971 to 1991–92 are based on official exchange rates. Data from 1992 to 1993 onward are based on FEDAI (Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India) indicative rates.
Emblem of India: Value, new rupee sign, floral motif and year of minting: 2011: 2018 ₹ 2: 23 mm: 4.07 g: Ferritic stainless steel: Circular: Emblem of India: Value, rupee sign, year of issue, grains depicting the agricultural dominance of the country: 2019 ₹ 5: 23 mm: 9 g: Cupro-Nickel: Circular: Emblem of India: Value: 1992: 2006 ₹ 5: 23 ...
At the time of independence (in 1947), India's currency was pegged to pound sterling, and the exchange rate was a shilling and six pence for a rupee — which worked out to ₹13.33 to the pound. [23] The dollar-pound exchange rate then was $4.03 to the pound, which in effect gave a rupee-dollar rate in 1947 of around ₹3.30.
The most commonly used symbol for the rupee is "₨". India adopted a new symbol (₹) for the Indian rupee on 15 July 2010. In most parts of India, the rupee is known as rupaya, rupaye, or one of several other terms derived from the Sanskrit rūpya, meaning silver. Ṭaṅka is an ancient Sanskrit word for money.
The Sept. 1-6 Reuters poll of 40 FX analysts expected the rupee to weaken to 80/$ in a month and remain around there until end-November, despite the Reserve Bank of India's burning through dollar ...
In 1892, the Government of India announced its intent to "close Indian mints to silver" and, in 1893, it brought this policy into force. [2] The committee recommended that the official Indian rupee be based on the gold standard and the official exchange rate of the rupee be established at 15 rupees per British sovereign , or 1 shilling and 4 ...
Prior to 1957, Indian rupee was not decimalised and the rupee from 1835 to 1957 AD was further divided into 16 annas. 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
In 1955, the Government of India first amended the Indian Coinage Act and adopted the "metric system for coinage". 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.