Currency history
Bhutanese ngultrum
Bhutanese ngultrum: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- BTN
- Ancestry branch
- Indian rupee
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Where this money came from
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DocumentedQualified
PredecessorINR
Indian rupeeThis currencyBTN
Bhutanese ngultrumNo successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
Bhutan's Ministry of Finance first issued banknotes during the 1974 monetary reform, standardising the unit at 100 chhetrum per ngultrum. [1]
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“Bhutanese ngultrum.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000288.html