The first Rupee was minted by Sher Shah Suri called Rupiya in 1540 - 45.
After Independence, India printed Pakistan’s currency note for 1 year and Pakistan used India’s currency as its own with little tweaks.
Indian currency has been demonetized 3 times, 1946, 1978 and 2016.
On each currency note, the value is written in 17 languages, only 1 of them is an International language, Nepalese.
An 150 Rupee coin was launched in 2012 to celebrate Rabrindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary.
The Rupee symbol is one of the only 5 currencies in the world with a symbol i.e Dollar, Pound, Yen & Euro.
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