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On 2/16/08, Rudra ठाकुर <rudrac@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > can anyone shed some light on when we changed from "annas and > pies" to "paisa and rupees". > and what was unit of currency before "anna and pies". > > thanx, > --rc > ========================================================= Without being exact about the year, I guess pai was the first to be phased out, sometime in late 50s. I vividly remeber the pai coin, a copper circular disc with a circular cutout in the centre. One anna coin was in nickel like finish, a circular one with corrugations on the perimeter. Six pais made one anna and sixteen annas made one rupee. After a while coins one anna and two annas too were withdrawn from circulation. However the old coin of 4 annas and 8 annas remained legal tender for many years, I guess well into early seventies and were valued at par with new 25 paise and 50 paise coinage put into the market. The old money was then called Juna paisa and the new denominations in metric system came to be known as Naya paisa, which is current until todate. It is for this reason that people have today forgotten the usage of words like pai, one anna, two anna etc. from their day to day dealings but chaar anna & aath anna have very much stayed. Rohit Zaveri +&z(֢Z֜gajZzzޚuh^֥)ආXȚ*..֥j2zWzbu+-+%)m-je)ඉ Vt* *莈Wz^~jm &fډǧr$iبbجj!jm &fډǧr$iڭbm
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