New Symbol for Rupee

This is interesting, apparently up until last week the Indian Rupee didn’t have its own unique symbol – you know, like the “$” for dollar, ”£” for the pound sterling or “€” for the euro.

But they just picked one. Here it is:

Oddly the symbol won’t show up on currency notes or coins, at least, according to the article I read, but that’ll probably change as time goes on.