Indian Currency

• The First coins were made around 2500 year ago.
• Paper money was First used in China Over 1000 year ago.
• The First "rupee" was First introduced by Sher Shah Suri.
• Udaya K Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee Symbol, Which was adopted by the Government of India in 2010
• The first series of coins with the Indian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July,2010.
• The first 1000RsNote was introduced in 2000
• The first Mahatma Gandhi Series 20Rs and 5Rs note was introduced in 2001.
• Total 15 Language are printed in Indian Rupee Note. They are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oria, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu
• Indian coins are produced in 4 cities Delhi , Mumbai , Hyderabad , Kolkata. The coins produce from each city puts an identification mark under the year of issue. Coins produced in Delhi 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