9 Interesting Facts About Indian Currency

The first currency created by independent India was the one rupee note.

A new rupee symbol (₹) was formally implemented in 2010. It was created by combining the Devanagari consonant "र" (ra) and the Latin capital letter "R" without the vertical bar, according to its creator.

The father of the Indian rupee? Sher Shah Suri

Cotton is used to make the Indian Rupee.

A Rs.1 coin costs Rs.1.11 to mint.

Each currency note has 15 different languages.

Indian coins are minted in four cities: Mumbai, Noida, Hyderabad, and Kolkata.

The Government of India prints banknotes through the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL).

In 1917, ₹ the was more powerful than the $1 amounted to 13 USD to be exact.