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Do you Know how Much 10 gms Gold Used to Cost in 1959? Decades old Bill Takes Internet by Storm
The old gold bill of 1959 that belonged to a store in Maharashtra named Vaman Nimbaji Ashtekar is circulating widely on the Internet with netizens taking a lot of interest to compare the gold price of 1gm to contemporary times.
Highlights
- An old gold bill of 1959 goes viral on Internet.
- The bill listed 10 gm gold price to Rs 113 only.
- Netizens start comparing 1 gm gold price to comparative price.
New Delhi: The old gold bill of 1959 has gone viral on the Internet and made a lot of buzz among netizens. They have started comparing the rates of that time 1gm of gold to contemporary’s petrol and diesel and even choclates. Gold used to be way cheaper than today when inflation makes it manifold times pricer.
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The old picture of the gold bill of 1959 is reportedly belonged to a goldsmith of Maharshtra. The cost of 10 gms of gold was mentioned in the bill as Rs 113, which roughly infers the rate of one gram gold to mere Rs 10 rupees. In today’s times, some choclates are costlier than Rs 10 rupees.
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The bill, which is dated March 3, 1959, and belonged to a store in Maharashtra named Vaman Nimbaji Ashtekar, according to the viral image.
These times the cost of 10 gm of gold would amount around Rs 50000 which is remarkably very high. So 1 gm gold costs about Rs 5000. Netizens say that Rs 100 of that time is equiavalent to Rs 5000 of now.
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