The India 10 Rupee Coin
Yesterday, my mother brought a Rs.10 coin. I pounced on the new coin (I've this relatively new habit of keeping samples of different coins), but was surprised to find the year was shown as '2007'. If the coin was released in 2007, why have I not seen it yet? Anyway, in case you have not seen one yet, here's how the coin looks: That brings us to the design of coins. What do you think of the design of this one? Lately, the government has released coins of various denominations that has the picture of a female hand showing the denomination. A raised thumb for Rs.1, two fingers for Rs.2 and a fist (??) for 50p. I find them atrocious. The ones released a bit earlier had two sets of intersecting perpendicular lines (like the one shown above). I don't understand the meaning of that as well (if that dot is a head, then the arms are a bit too long!). And the quality of these coins is so bad that some of them have become quite unrecognisable in 2 years time. I really loved th...