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

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I bought them about five years ago.
I think that there was no official proclamation of "nP" to paisa. It just,
sort of, happened.

On Feb 18, 2008 2:57 PM, Ravi Menon <ravi.menon@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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