If you go to buy gold in India today, you may have to sell your farm. At this time, the price of gold in the country is 71 to 72 thousand rupees per 10 grams. But there was a time when you could get 10 grams of gold at the price that you can eat one or two plates of Maggi today.
So many grams of gold for 113 rupees
These days the price of gold is skyrocketing. If there is a wedding in your house and you have to get jewelry made, then you have to spend all your savings for it. On the other hand, if you come from a middle class family, then you have to think a hundred times before getting jewelry made. If you have to get it made out of compulsion, then you have to take a loan. But this was not the case in 1959. At that time, you could get 11 grams of gold for about 113 rupees.
The bill is going viral
These days a bill is going viral on social media. This bill is of 1959. The price of 11 grams of gold is shown as Rs 113. Actually, this bill is of some Vaman Nimbaji Ashtekar shop. The things written in it are in Marathi language. This shows that this shop must have been somewhere in Maharashtra or maybe it is there even today. When we checked on the internet, we found a shop of this name in Pune.
What is the price of gold today
According to the report of Gold Return, the price of gold on August 5 was Rs 70,365 per 10 grams. Whereas, on August 3, it was Rs 72,400. On August 2, the price of gold per 10 grams was Rs 73100. On July 18, the price of gold per 10 grams in the country was Rs 76410. From this you can guess that if you go to buy 10 grams of gold today, how much price you will have to pay. In 1959, you could get the same amount of gold for just Rs 113. If someone had bought gold at that time, its price would have increased thousands of times today.
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