Talk:Coins of the Indian rupee

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• I'm still trying to find out when the first 5 Rupee coin came into circulation. Amahabal has put a date of 1985. Just want to make sure if that is circulated or uncirculated. --Viren 13:40, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Circulated. The coin had Indira Gandhi on it, and did not have the date printed. According to the KM catalogue, 59.2 million were minted, so it must be circulated. The currently common 5 Rupee coin started in 1992. Amahabal 15:38, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • I guess the same holds for this 10 Rs coin ? http://colnect.com/en/coins/coin/2229-10_Rupees-India-Republic . Says issued in 1969 Anish7 (talk) 22:51, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Controversy over new 2-rupee coin

• There really should be a photograph of the new 2-rupee coin so that the reader can compare it to the mediaeval Christian coin shown. To me, the cross on the 2-rupee coin doesn't look much like a Christian cross because instead of two bars crossing each other there are four, that is, two pairs of parallel bars crossing each other, like a tic-tac-toe board but with closer spacing.Bill 19:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
• I will try to get one when I travel to India soon. Actually, the pairs of bars are really close together; it really does look like a single bar. And they meet and merge in the centre. I doubt the symbol is intended to represent a Christian cross, but whoever designed it was really careless to ignore the religious implications. I mean, if the American mints wanted to design a coin with the theme of astronomy, would a coin with a crescent moon enclosing a star be allowed to get into production? I'm really shocked that India's coin designers seemingly thought that no one would see a cross in that symbol ... whatever it is.--SohanDsouza 18:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Personally, the bars don't seem to me to be so close that it looks like a Christian cross, but I have to say that the interpretation that the Reserve Bank says is intended doesn't exactly leap out at me either. In any case, the previous design, with a map of India, is much more attractive in my opinion. I don't know why they didn't stick with that.Bill 19:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
  • There is actually a new one rupee coin that matches the cross on the mediaeval Christian coin. I have seen a lesser number of such coins in circulation. The controversy if any, should actually center around this coin. It also appears that these coins were minted way back. I have the new controversial one rupee and two rupee coins minted with year 2005 though these were seen in circulation only during early 2007. It is possible that the Indian Government anticipated this backlash and hence withheld their release till 2007. The two rupee coins were released first, probably as a test case, followed by the one rupee coin.--Narsi68 (talk) 05:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Ferratic Stainless Steel

I have never heard of this type of steel, it should be 'Ferritic Stainless Steel' also, there are quite a few problems with this article, which I was hoping I can fix, unless someone has an issue with this. Thanks SiegerKranzMeer 02:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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Controversy over 2006 two-rupee coin: Notable?

Is this "controversy" notable? All I can find is articles by "V Sundaram" on non-mainstream (mainly right-wing Hindu nationalist) websites. I don't think there is a need to devote an entire section to this stuff. utcursch | talk 17:55, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Completeness of article

The section called "contemporary" coins should be renamed "Current coin Issues". There are no date ranges for these periods either. This data needs including. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.176.89.230 (talk) 20:32, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Effects of Inflation

Visiting India recently, I noticed that lack of small change was a constant problem. I had the impression that there was a hoarding atmosphere, with coins worth more as scrap metal than their face value. Given that India has had fairly rapid inflation recently, I wonder if this is an issue for the currency authorities ? Feroshki (talk) 08:20, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Merger Discussion

Request received to merge articles: Commemorative coins of India into Modern Indian coins; dated December 2015; discussion here. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 16:57, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Images to be added

AKS.9955 has uploaded a wonderful collection of coins to commons, many of them deserving of a place in this article. If you are interested in taking up the task, please do so. Thanks. MT Train^Discuss 17:44, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

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Someone should upload photos of series II and III coins.

It’s hard to identify them when the dates don’t match up and there are no identifying photos Starust2184 (talk) 08:25, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Difference between Devanagari and non-Devanagari series

They seem to have launched in the same time frame and the non Devanagari coins don’t have photos Starust2184 (talk) 08:28, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Commemorative coins

Where are the commemorative coins? 103.176.211.44 (talk) 16:11, 3 February 2024 (UTC)