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South African rand. The South African rand, or simply the rand, (sign: R; code: ZAR) is the official currency of South Africa. It is subdivided into 100 cents (sign: "c"), and a comma separates the rand and cents. The South African rand is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area member states of Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini, with these three countries also having national currencies: (the dollar, the loti and the lilangeni respectively) pegged with the rand at parity and still widely accepted as substitutes. The rand was also legal tender in Botswana until 1976 when the pula replaced the rand at par. Etymology The rand takes its name from the Witwatersrand ("white waters' ridge" in English, rand being the Afrikaans (and Dutch) word for 'ridge'), the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found. In English and Afrikaans (and...
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Namibian dollar. The Namibia dollar (symbol: $ or N$; code: NAD) has been the currency of Namibia since 1993. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign ($), or alternatively N$ to distinguish it from other currencies called ???dollar.??? It is divided into 100 cents. History The dollar replaced the South African rand, which had been the country's currency while it was under South African rule as South-West Africa from 1920 until 1990, at par. The rand is still legal tender, as the Namibian dollar is linked to the South African rand and can be exchanged on a one-to-one basis locally. Namibia was also part of the Common Monetary Area from independence in 1990 until the introduction of the dollar in 1993. In the beginning, alternative names for the Namibian dollar were suggested, including Namibian kalahar, referencing the Kalahari Desert in the east of Namibia, but...
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Haitian livre. currency formerly used in Haiti
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Guatemalan peso. historical currency of Guatemala
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Costa Rican peso. former currency of Costa Rica
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Yemeni rial. The rial (Arabic: ???????? ????????; sign: ???; abbreviation: YRl (singular) and YRls (plural) in Latin, ,??.?? in Arabic; ISO code: YER) is the official currency of the Republic of Yemen. It is technically divided into 100 fils, although coins denominated in fils have not been issued since Yemeni unification. Due to the ongoing political instability, the value of the Yemeni rial has fallen significantly. The Yemeni civil war has caused the currency to diverge. In southern Yemen, which is primarily controlled by UAE-backed separatists and the former government backed by Saudi Arabia, ongoing printing has caused the currency's value to plummet. However, in northern Yemen, which is primarily controlled by Ansar Allah with support from Iran, banknotes printed after 2017 are not considered legal tender. Therefore, the exchange rate has remained stable. The differences in banknotes printed before and after 2017 can be determined...
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United Arab Emirates dirham. The Arab Emirates Dirham (; Arabic: ???????? ??????????????, abbreviation: ??.?? in Arabic, Dh (singular) and Dhs (plural) or DH in Latin; ISO code: AED is the official currency of the United Arab Emirates. The dirham is subdivided into 100 fils (??????). It is pegged to the United States Dollar at a constant exchange rate of approximately 3.67 AED to 1 USD. History The name dirham is a loan from the Greek ???????????? (drakhm??). Due to centuries of trade and usage of the currency, dirham survived through the Ottoman Empire. Before 1966, all the emirates that now form the UAE used the Gulf rupee, which was pegged at parity to the Indian rupee. On 6 June 1966, India decided to devalue the Gulf rupee against the Indian rupee. Not accepting the devaluation, several of the states still using the Gulf rupee adopted their...
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Syrian pound. The Syrian pound or lira (Arabic: ???????????? ??????????????, romanized: al-l??ra as-s??riyya; abbreviation: LS or SP in Latin, ??.?? in Arabic, historically also ??S, and ??Syr; ISO code: SYP) is the currency of Syria. It is issued by the Central Bank of Syria. The pound is nominally divided into 100 piastres (?????? qirsh, plural ???????? qur??sh in Arabic, abbreviated to p.), although piastre coins are no longer issued. Before 1947, the Arabic inscription of the word "qirsh" was spelled with the initial Arabic letter ??, after which the word began with ??. Until 1958, banknotes were issued with Arabic on the obverse and French on the reverse. Since 1958, English has been used on the reverses, hence the three different names for...
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Sudanese pound. The Sudanese pound (Arabic: ???????? ???????????? "Jineh Sudani"; abbreviation: LS in Latin, ??.?? in Arabic, historically also ??Sd; ISO code: SDG) is the currency of the Republic of the Sudan. The pound is divided into 100 piastres (or qirsh (??????) in Arabic). It is issued by the Central Bank of Sudan. The pound fell for the first time since 1997 after the United States imposed economic sanctions on Sudan. The Sudanese pound continued its decline to an unprecedented number, falling to LS 53 against the dollar. This situation, which drained all economic measures, led to heavy losses in the external repercussions...
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Somali shilling. The Somali shilling (sign: Sh.So.; Somali: shilin; Arabic: ??????; Italian: scellino; ISO 4217: SOS) is the official currency of Somalia. It is subdivided into 100 senti (Somali, also ??????), cents (English) or centesimi (Italian). Overview Early history The shilling has been the currency of parts of Somalia since 1921, when the East African shilling was introduced to the former British Somaliland protectorate. Following the 1960 independence and unification of the former territories of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland, their respective currencies, the East African shilling and somalo (which were equal in value) were replaced at par in 1962 by the Somali shilling. Names used for...
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Saudi riyal. The Saudi riyal (Arabic: ???????? ?????????? riy??l su????diyy) is the currency of Saudi Arabia. It is abbreviated as ??.??SAR, or SR (Saudi Arabian Riyal/Saudi Riyal). It is subdivided into 100 halalas (Arabic: ???????? Halalah). The currency is pegged to the US dollar at a constant rate of exchange. History The riyal has been the currency of Saudi Arabia since the country came into being and was the currency of Hejaz before Saudi Arabia was created, one of the primary currencies in the Mediterranean region during the Ottoman era. The Hejaz riyal was based on but not equivalent to the Ottoman...
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Qatari riyal. The Qatari riyal (sign: QR in Latin, ??.?? in Arabic; ISO code: QAR) is the currency of the State of Qatar. It is divided into 100 dirhams (Arabic: ????????). History Until 1966, Qatar used the Indian rupee as its currency, in the form of Gulf rupees. When India devalued the rupee in 1966, Qatar, along with the other states using the Gulf rupee, chose to introduce its own currency. Before doing so, Qatar briefly adopted the Saudi riyal, then introduced the Qatar and Dubai riyal following the signing of the Qatar-Dubai Currency Agreement on 21 March 1966. The Saudi riyal was worth 1.065 Gulf rupees, whilst the Qatar and Dubai riyal was equal to the Gulf rupee prior to its devaluation. Initially pegged with sterling at one shilling and six pence (1s. 6d.) per riyal, its value was changed to one shilling and nine...
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Omani rial. The Omani rial (Arabic: ????????, ISO 4217 code OMR) is the currency of Oman. It is divided into 1000 baisa (also written baiza, ????????). Fixed exchange rate From 1973 to 1986, the rial was pegged to the U.S. dollar at 1 Omani rial = US$2.895. The rate was changed in 1986 to 1 Omani rial = US$2.6008, which translates to approximately US$1 = 0.384497 rial. As of 2023, the Central Bank of Oman bought U.S. dollars at 0.384 Omani rial, and sold U.S. dollars at 0.385 Omani rial. It is as of 2024 the third-highest-valued currency unit in the world after the Kuwaiti dinar and the Bahraini dinar. Note: Rates obtained from these websites may contradict with pegged rate mentioned above. History Until 1940, the Indian rupee and the Maria Theresa thaler...
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Lebanese pound. The lira or pound is the currency of Lebanon. It was formerly divided into 100 piastres (or qirsh in Arabic) but, because of high inflation during the Lebanese Civil War (1975???1990), subunits were discontinued. The plural of lira is either lirat (?????????? l??r??t) or invariant, whilst there are four forms for qirsh: the dual qirsh??n (??????????) used with number 2, the plural qurush (????????) used with numbers 3???10, the accusative singular qirshan (??????????) used with 11???99, and the genitive singular qirsh (??????) used with multiples of 100. The number determines which plural form is used. All of Lebanon's coins and banknotes are bilingual in...
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Kuwaiti dinar. The Kuwaiti dinar (Arabic: ?????????? ?????????????, code: KWD) is the currency of Kuwait. It is sub-divided into 1,000 ful??s. As of 2023, the Kuwaiti dinar is the currency with the highest value per base unit, with KD 1 equalling US$3.26, ahead of the Bahraini dinar with BD 1 equalling US$2.65 and Omani rial at US$2.60. History The dinar was introduced in 1961 to replace the Gulf rupee, equal to the Indian rupee. It was initially equivalent to ??1 sterling. As the rupee was fixed at 1s.6d., that resulted in a conversion rate of Rs. 13+1???3 to KD 1. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the Iraqi dinar replaced the Kuwaiti dinar as the currency and large quantities of banknotes were stolen by the invading forces. After liberation, the Kuwaiti dinar was restored as the country's currency...
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Jordanian dinar. The Jordanian dinar (Arabic: ?????????? ?????????????; code: JOD; unofficially abbreviated as JD) has been the currency of Jordan since 1950. The dinar is divided into 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fulus. Fils are effectively obsolete; however, monetary amounts are still written to three decimal places representing fils. It is pegged to the US dollar. The Central Bank of Jordan commenced operations in 1964 and became the sole issuer of Jordanian currency, in place of the Jordan Currency Board. The Jordanian dinar is also widely used in the West Bank alongside the Israeli shekel. History In 1927, the British administration of the Palestinian Mandate established the Palestine Currency Board which issued the Palestine pound which was the official currency in both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan. Though Jordan became an independent kingdom...
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Iraqi dinar. The Iraqi dinar (code: IQD) is the currency of Iraq. The Iraqi dinar is issued by the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI). On 7 February 2023, the exchange rate with the US Dollar was US$1 = 1300 dinars. History The Iraqi dinar entered circulation on 1 April 1932, replacing the Indian rupee, which had been the official currency since the British occupation of the country in World War I, at a rate of 1 dinar = 11 rupees. The dinar was pegged at par with sterling until 1959 when, without changing its value, the peg was switched to the United States dollar at the rate of IQD 1 = US$2.80. By not following the US devaluations in 1971 and 1973, the official rate rose to US$3.3778, before a 5% devaluation reduced its rate to US$3.2169, a rate which remained until the Gulf War in 1990, although in late 1989 the black market rate was reported at five to six times higher than the official rate. ...
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Egyptian pound. The Egyptian pound (Egyptian Arabic: ???????? ???????? [??e??ne?? ??m??s??ri, ????eni-]; abbreviations: ??, E??, ??E, LE, or EGP in Latin, and ??.??. in Arabic, ISO code: EGP) is the official currency of Egypt. It is divided into 100 piastres, or qirsh (?????? [??er??]; plural ???????? [??????ru????]; abbreviation: PT (short for "piastre tarif")) and was historically divided into 1,000 milliemes (???????? [m??l??li??m]; French...
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Djiboutian franc. The Djiboutian franc (Arabic: ????????, French: Franc, Somali: Faranka) is the currency of Djibouti. Its ISO 4217 currency code is DJF. Historically, it was subdivided into 100 centimes. History From 1884, when the French Somaliland protectorate was established, the French franc circulated alongside the Indian rupee and the Maria Theresa thaler. These coexisted with 2 francs = 1 rupee and 4.2 francs = 1 Maria Theresa thaler. From 1908, francs circulating in Djibouti were legally fixed at the value of the French franc. Starting in 1910, banknotes were issued for the then colony by the Bank of Indochina. Chamber of Commerce paper money and tokens were issued between 1919 and 1922. In 1948, the first coins were issued specifically for use in Djibouti, in the name of the "C??te Fran??aise des Somalis". In 1949, an independent Djiboutian franc came into...
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Bahraini dinar. The dinar (Arabic: ?????????? ??????????????? D??n??r Ba???r??n??) (sign: .??.????? or BD; code: BHD) is the currency of Bahrain. It is divided into 1000 fils (?????????). The Bahraini dinar is abbreviated ??.????? (Arabic) or BD (Latin). It is usually represented with three decimal places denoting the fils. The name dinar derives from the Roman denarius. As of December 2021, the Bahraini dinar is the second highest-valued currency unit, at 2.65 United States dollars per unit (the highest-valued unit is the Kuwaiti dinar at $3.32). History The Bahraini dinar was introduced in 1965, replacing the Gulf rupee at a rate of 10 rupees = 1 dinar. It was initially equivalent to 3???4 of a pound sterling...
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Comorian franc. The franc (French: franc comorien; Arabic: ???????? ????????; sign: FC; ISO 4217 code: KMF) is the official currency of Comoros. It is nominally subdivided into 100 centimes, although no centime denominations have ever been issued. History The French franc became the currency of Comoros after the islands became a French protectorate in 1886. In 1891, Sultan Said Ali bin Said Omar of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) issued coins denominated in centimes and francs which circulated alongside French currency. In 1912, the Comoros became a province of Madagascar, which was also a French possession. French banknotes and coins circulated in the colony. Apart from an emergency issue of small change notes in 1920, the French currency circulated alone until 1925. On 1 July 1925, the French government formed an agreement with the Banque de Paris et des...
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New Turkish lira. Turkish currency, 2005-date (changed in 2009 to just "lira")
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Palestine pound. Currency of Mandatory Palestine
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riyal of Qatar and Dubai
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