Sometimes we know very little about people who surround us most of the times. The same goes for some things as well. For instance, money is one thing, around which our whole life revolves but few of us do know about the facts related to it. Here are 8 amazing facts about the Indian currency that you know very little about.
The word ‘rupee’ has come from the Sanskrit word ‘“rupyakam”’. The meaning of which is silver.
The current series of bank notes are called Mahatma Gandhi Series. It was introduced in 1996.
The value (amount) of a banknote is written on the banknote in Hindi and English in the front side and in 15 different Indian languages in the backside of the note.
The life of a banknote is only 9-10 months average.
Our Indian currency have Braille signs to help the visually challenged, which helps the blind to identify currency notes. There are 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, Rectangle, Square and None respectively.
The different symbols below the year on the mint, are actually specifying where it has originated. The following insets have been assumed and be allotted…
Mumbai – have a diamond
Kolkata – Nothing beneath the year
Delhi – have a dot
Hyderabad – have a star
The Indian Rupee note are made up of cotton and cotton rag. These are printed at Currency Note Press in Nashik, the Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam (P) presses at Salboni and Mysore, Watermark Paper Manufacturing Mill in Hoshangabad.
Bhutan and Zimbabwe are the two nations considered Indian Rupee as legal tender in these countries.
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