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India Government Mint

The India Government Mint operates four mints in the country for the production of coins. They are located at:

• Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Kolkata, West Bengal
• Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
• Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Under The Coinage Act, 1906, the Government of India is charged with the responsibility of the production and supply of coins to the Reserve Bank of India(RBI). The RBI places an annual indent for this purpose and the Government of India draws up the production programme for the India Government Mints on the basis of the indent.

Besides minting coins, the mints at Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad also make coin blanks. Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata mints have gold assayingfacilities and the Mumbai mint produces standardised weights and measures.

Commemorative coins are made at Mumbai and Kolkata. Kolkata has the facilities for making medallions too. The NOIDA mint was the first in the country to mint coins of stainless steel.

Marks on Mint

Each currency coin minted in India (for that matter anywhere in the world) has a special mint mark on it to identify the Mint.

Coins minted at Mumbai,Hyderabad and Noida respectively

]The Bombay (Mumbai) Mint

Bombay (Mumbai) Mint has a diamond under the date of the coin (year of issue). The Proof coins from this mint have a mint mark ‘B’ or ‘M’.

The Calcutta (Kolkata) Mint

Calcutta mint has no mark under the date of the coin (year of issue). Many people confuse “c” found under some coins to be from calcutta mint. However, that symbol belongs to the Ottawa mint in Canada.

The Hyderabad Mint

Hyderabad Mint has a star or a diamond under the date of the coin (year of the issue). The other mint marks from Hyderabad include a split diamond, and a dot in the diamond.

The Noida Mint

Noida mint has a dot under the year of issue (coin date).

Currently issued notes

Main article: Mahatma Gandhi Series (banknotes)

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the series in 1996 with the 10 and 500 banknotes. At present, the RBI issues banknotes denominations from 5 to 1000. Printing of 5 notes which had stopped earlier restarted in 2009. ATMs usually dispense 100, 500, and 1000 notes.The Mahatma Gandhi Series of banknotes are issued by the Reserve Bank of India as the legal tender of Indian rupee. As the name suggests, the series is so called because the observe of the banknotes prominently display the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. Since its introduction in 1996, this series has replaced all issued banknotes.

As of January 2012, the new Indian rupee sign has been incorporated in the currency notes in the denomination of s 10, 100, 500 and 1000

Each banknote has its amount written in 15 languages. On the obverse side, the denomination is written in English and Hindi. On the reverse of each note is a language panel that displays the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India. The languages are displayed in the alphabetical order. The languages included on the panel are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Present India Currency Banknotes 

The Union Government of India sanctions the blueprint of banknotes on the advices of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. India currency banknotes are produced at the following venues:

• Bank Note Press, Dewas
• Currency Note Press, Nashik
• Watermark Paper Manufacturing Mill, Hoshangabad
• Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam (P) Limited presses at Mysore and Salboni

The contemporary set of Indian currency notes, which were introduced in 1996, is known as the Mahatma Gandhi series. Currently, banknotes are circulated with denominations of 5 rupees, 10 rupees, 20 rupees, 50 rupees, 100 rupees, 500 rupees, and 1,000 rupees. The printing of 5 rupee notes ceased previously. However, it has commenced once more from 2009. ATMs (automated teller machines) normally provide currency notes with denominations of 100 rupees, 500 rupees, and 1,000 rupees. The zero rupee note is also there but it is not formally circulated by the Government of India. It is a representation of dissent and a Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) in India prints and circulates it.

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