The cost of minting a one-rupee coin in India exceeds its face value, as revealed by the RBI in a 2018 RTI. One rupee note ...
Image Source : PIXABAY The govt spends more than one-rupee to manufacture a one-rupee coin. The one-rupee coin might not hold much monetary significance, but it is of substantial sentimental value ...
The Indian rupee is likely to open flat-to-slightly-lower on Wednesday, with traders expecting the currency to weaken ...
It might come as a surprise, but the cost of minting a one-rupee coin in India is higher than its actual value. According to a 2018 disclosure by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in response to an ...
Its genesis lies in the World War I where the inability to mint coins forced the then colonial authorities to shift to printing Re. 1 notes in 1917. The last hundred years — the first note was ...
The Indian rupee slipped to its weakest closing level on record on Monday, pressured by a decline in the offshore Chinese ...
The problem stems from the large variety of 10-rupee coins in circulation. More than 5 billion coins, worth over $775 million, have been minted since 2010. Rs. 10 coin have been issued both with ...
There are two kinds of five-rupee coins in circulation in India. A brass one and the other is of a thinker metal. However, ...
The Indian rupee, under pressure for the last few months, sank to a new low of 84.94 against the dollar on December 18, just ...
It might come as a surprise, but the cost of minting a one-rupee coin in India is higher than its actual value. According to a 2018 disclosure by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in response to an ...