Re: [nukkad] from annas and pies to paisa and rupee

["Ravi Menon" <>]

Nostalgia!
I remember trips to the market as well!
In fact it was a great boon to have been able to shop for vegetables
especially since I learnt how to identify the tender veggies from those that
the shopkeeper/stall holder tried to palm off!
Taher when did you purchase those coins?
In Cochin, I bought two sets of Ancient Indian for about 80 rupees - this
was almost 10 years ago.
Another question is when did the coins go from Naya Paisa to Paisa?
Ravi




On 2/18/08, Dr Taher (डा॰ ताहेर कागलवाला) 
<drtaher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2008 10:49 PM, Dr.M.C. Gupta  wrote:
>
> Thank you all for a very interesting discussion. I still have some pies, a
> few 1 and 2 paisa coins, and a 1-anna coin too. I purchased them from a
> road-side stall near Fort in Mumbai. They cost me Rs. 130 for a past
> monetary value of less than 125 paise, a present monetary value of Rs.
> 0.00,
> and a metal value of nearly Rs. 2/= The collection includes one Nehru-50
> paisa coin.
>
> When I was a child, my father would often send me to the local mandi to
> buy
> vegetables. Tomatoes would be 60 paisa a kilo, and so we would end up with
> payment of 9 paisa for 150 gm and so on. It would be an interesting trip,
> not counting the smells and sights. The final bill would be around Rs.
> 1.48or
> 1.26 or whatever. I remember that my cloth bag would be almost full,
> weighing over 1.5 to 2.0 kg -- and all this for about the price of a
> child's
> minimum bus fare!
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