Is it a Rupee or 10 Rupees? No one in Idia seems to know and its nobodies fault

http://www.moneylife.in/article/rbi...ge-of-coins-of-rupees-one-and-five/28269.html

Should make for some interesting modern rarities in the future.

 

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With mintages still in the billions they won't be rarities.

 

not if they melt them

 

With all those coins in almost a billion peoples hands , who's going to melt them ?

 

Not bad mouthing India, but there are still large numbers of people there that are illiterate (some people would say that about me sometimes) and coin confusion is not a new thing - "OMG, the dollar coin is the same size as the quarter, I can't tell them apart". My favorite is the two rupee that leaves nothing to chance.

 

Right, nice idea - and that is actually a mini-series. Here are the other two ...
50 paise: http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img17/hr/87-374.jpg
1 rupee: http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img17/hr/87-331.jpg

Christian

 

Aren't these made of aluminum ? If they are , why would anyone melt them .

 

No, those are made from stainless steel. (Ferritic, so they should be magnetic.) However, the coins are pretty thin and thus light.

(Edit) By the way, here is a 10 rupee coin from the set introduced last year. The pieces now have the rupee symbol, and large digits as usual, but no more hands or fingers.

Christian

 

Personally I love them. Its a lot better than US coins. Anyone else ever notice how we do not have any denomination on our coins that a non-english speaker can understand? We have "cent", "dime", "quarter", etc. We have the most traveler unfriendly change in the world, not even mentioning the stupidity of our cent and nickel being larger than our dime.

 

Anything is better than US coins, with the possible exception of the gold and silver bullion. Say something meaningful.

 

How many tourists do you get in Northern Minnesota. When they swim here from Cuba and fly in Cargo from Bangladesh, they don't particularly care. Besides, what is not friendly. Our coinage has English on them just like the rest of the world.

 

Twin cities big guy. We have tons of immigrants and foreigners come here. Maybe not quite NY, NY, but a fair number.

I am just going from experience that whenever I go anywhere in the world the change is self evident its value, but in the US most foreigners struggle learning what is what. I think we are so used to it we never think about how its so weird we don't put numbers on our change.

 

Last time i look we are in America.
Why would we want to use anything but english on our coins?
Iam tired already of every time i buy something i have to skip through other language just to get to ours.
They are here by choice so let them learn ours. I already did.

 

just as well, I can't read arabic..

 

Do you find it threatening that there are people who want to live in our country that don't automatically speak the language? It really doesn't bother me a bit. An interesting sidelight, my wife is Japanese, and I have noticed that things are usually printed in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, and I have recently also seen Thai, but rarely these days in Japanese. I think most Japanese have been here so long and assimilated so well they don't need it. BTW, are you also against notices in Braille? I think having numerical denominations on coins is a really good idea.

 

Well said sir. I was going to reply why someone is so against us making our coins acceptable to everyone. I don't understand that. The rest of the world does it, makes their coins usable to anyone who may wish to visit their nation. I am proud of this country, and love showing it to non-Americans. As an aside, others coming here to see the US also spend money here, helping the economy.

To me, such an attitude is like begrudgingly allowing someone to come over for dinner, but then not allowing them to use a fork. Yes, you can do it, but it proves the point to them that they are not really welcome.

 

OK put numbers on them

The one cent gets a 1

The five cent gets a 5

The dime gets a 1 (for one dime)

The Quarter dollar get a 1/4

The half dollar get a 1/2

and the dollar gets a 1

So we have 1, 5, 1, 1/4, 1/2, 1 Takes care of all the confusion.

 

http://nursezone.com/Nursing-News-E...ompliance-with-JCAHO-Abbreviations_25768.aspx

 

Um, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 wouldn't work? And then a 1 for a golden dollar. I think most could figure that one out.

Last I saw a dime was ALSO deemed to be ten cents. Why would you use an archaic denomination to denote a number in? Or do you want to use mills, also a legal term in which to describe our coinage?

 

They need one of those coins, like that dutch commem, which you can scan into you pockets tracking computer/cellphone thingie, and it can tell you verbally the coin value in your preferred language.