The New Crowdsourced Rupee Symbol
You guessed it, it was crowdsourced!
Until recently, India’s currency was represented with “Rs” (also used by Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka). But facing rival economies and symbols like €, $ or £, India decided it was time to get their own symbol.
So they launched a competition open to everyone, with a prize of Rs250,000 ($5,352), and [...]