*FACTS OF 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 Reserve Bank introduced
the 20 note in the Mahatma
Gandhi series in August 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
1920's.