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India before adopting its decimal stance was using a 64-Pice as a Rupee. This PICE was minted between 15th August 1950-1955 (Source Wikipedia). It is minted in Bronze. For more information on Republic India Coinage refer RBI Site.

A Sri Lankan central bank official holds up new 1,000 rupee commemorative coins to mark the 50th anniversary of the state-pension fund EPF in Colombo on Friday. It carries images of a tea plucker, a garment industry worker and an office worker to symbolise the key drivers of Sri Lanka's economy. — AFP

News Courtesy: Tribune India

Observe of Ten Rupees (10 Rupees) in British India

The symbol represented in this series are accredited to dance form Bharata Natyam which specialises in using symbolic ways to convey messages to audience.

All Indian currencies have a common feature called Language Panel, which lists the currency value (For ex:- 100) and denomination (Rupees) in most of scheduled languages. The present day currencies comes with 15 Indian languages apart from Hindi in it.



It is printed in alphabetical order of languages.