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5th-century gold coin of King Ezana.. Aksumite currency was coinage produced and used within the Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum) centered in present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.Its mintages were issued and circulated from the reign of King Endubis around AD 270 until it began its decline in the first half of the 7th century where they started using Dinar along with most parts of the Middle East.
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) is a commodities exchange established April 2008 in Ethiopia. In Proclamation 2007-550, which created the ECX, its stated objective was "to ensure the development of an efficient modern trading system" that would "protect the rights and benefits of sellers, buyers, intermediaries, and the general public."
The Islamic State dinar (Arabic: دينار الدولة الإسلامية), or simply the gold dinar, [1] was the official currency of the Islamic State from 2014 to 2019. Subdivided into dirhams and fulûs , it was modelled after the historical gold dinar that was first introduced in the Muslim world during the time of the Umayyad Caliphate .
MIDROC Ethiopia was established in 1994. In 2011 it made a profit of 1.3bn birr (US$70m). [4]MIDROC has major gold mining interests in Ethiopia [5] [6] and it is reported that MIDROC Gold Mine (a subsidiary of MIDROC Ethiopia) has paid the Ethiopian Government 100.1 million birr in royalties, the largest contribution of any mining company. [7]
The economy of Ethiopia remained very traditional until the later 20th century, although Ethiopia—unlike most sub-Saharan countries—had maintained trade and contacts with the outside world for centuries. Since ancient times, Ethiopian traders exchanged gold, ivory, musk, and wild animal skins for salt and luxury goods, such as silk and ...
2.1 million tons of barley (17th largest producer in the world) 1.8 million tons of sweet potato (5th largest producer in the world) 1.4 million tons of sugar cane; 1.3 million tons of yam (5th largest producer in the world) 988 thousand tons of broad bean; 982 thousand tons of millet; 743 thousand tons of potato; 599 thousand tons of vegetable
The birr was reintroduced on 23 July 1945 at a rate of 1 birr per 2 shillings. It was pegged to the U.S. dollar at a central rate of 1 birr = US$0.4025, or 2.48447 birr = US$1. On 31 December 1963, this was slightly changed to 2.50 birr = US$1. The name Ethiopian dollar was used in the English text on the
More and more gold mines are being located, such as in the Afar region and in the Konso woreda in south western Ethiopia. [8] On 30 August 2012 it was announced that British firm Nyota Minerals was about to become the first foreign company to receive a mining licence to extract gold from an estimated resource of 52 tonnes in western Ethiopia. [9]