Who invented Indian rupee?

Sher Shah Suri
Etymology. The immediate precursor of the rupee is the rūpiya—the silver coin weighing 178 grains minted in northern India by first Sher Shah Suri during his brief rule between 1540 and 1545 and adopted and standardized later by the Mughal Empire.

What is the logo of rupees?

Rs.
₹
Indian rupee/Symbols

How many languages are used in Indian currency?

Contemporary Currency notes have 15 languages on the panel which appear on the reverse of the note.

Which country currency is Rs?

India
Bhutan
Indian rupee/Countries

When did India mint its first coin?

Coins of the Indian rupee (INR) were first minted in 1950. New coins have been produced annually since then and they make up a valuable aspect of the Indian currency system.

Who is the designer of the rupee symbol?

D. Udaya Kumar is the designer of the rupee symbol. He was just a day or two away from starting his new job in the Department of Design at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, in 2010 when he won a national contest to design a symbol for the Indian rupee.

Should the rupee symbol respect Indian culture and tradition?

Mr. Udaya Kumar says the competition guidelines were very specific that the rupee symbol should respect Indian culture and tradition. India was a very diverse country and no one thing could really represent it, he felt.

When did the new Indian rupee sign start being used?

Major banks have also started printing cheques with the new Indian rupee sign, where the traditional ₨ sign was used. The Indian Postal Department also started printing postage stamps with this new Indian rupee sign, when it issued the Commonwealth Games commemorative stamps on 3 October 2010.

When did the Indian rupee replace the Danish rupee?

The Indian rupee replaced the Danish Indian rupee in 1845, the French Indian rupee in 1954 and the Portuguese Indian escudo in 1961.