New Series of Coins

- The Government of India has also issued a new series of coins of the denomination of 50 paise, Rs. 1, Rs. 2, Rs. 5 and Rs. 10 with following features :
• New series of coins of 50 paise, Rs. 1, Rs. 2 and Rs. 5 contain aflowery designs;
• Rs. 10 coins will now contain 10 petals in pice of existing 15petals;
• Parallel lines on the existing Rs. 10 coin will be removed and the size of the Ashoka Pillar will be increased;
• New series of coins will be introduced with new rupee symbol 'Rs.';
• For easy recognition and distinction, the new series of coins will contain features at the edge;
• The size of the coins of the denominations of 50 paise, Rs. 1, Rs. 2 will be reduced slightly.
- The following commemorative coins were issued during the period:
• 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindra Nath Tagore.
• Birth Centenary of Mother Teresa.
• Birth Centenary ofe. Subramaniam.
• 1000 year of Birhadeshwar Temple, Thanjavur.
• XIX Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi.
• Income tax-ISO years of building India