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English-language publications used "£T" as the sign for the currency, [4] [5] but it is unknown whether it was ever used natively. Between 1844 and 1881, the lira was on a bimetallic standard , with LT 1 = 6.61519 grams pure gold (roughly 9 ⁄ 10 of a British Sovereign ) = 99.8292 grams pure silver.
Today the kuruş (pl. kuruşlar ) is a Turkish currency subunit, with one Turkish lira equal to 100 kuruş as of the 2005 revaluation of the lira . Until the 1844 subdivision of the former Ottoman gold lira , the kuruş was the standard unit of currency within the Ottoman Empire , and was subdivided into 40 para or 120 akçe .
Libyan half pound, with the portrait of King Idris of Libya. The Libyan pound (Arabic جنيه, junieh; sign: £L) was the currency of Libya between 1951 and 1971. It was divided into 100 piastres (قرش, qirsh) and 1000 milliemes (مليم).
The Venetian lira was one of the currencies in use in Italy and due to the economic power of the Venetian Republic a popular currency in the Eastern Mediterranean trade. During the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire and the Eyalet of Egypt adopted the lira as their national currency, equivalent to 100 piasters or kuruş. When the Ottoman Empire ...
In the late Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: درهم), the standard dirham was 3.207 g; [1] 400 dirhem equal one oka. The Ottoman dirham was based on the Sasanian drachm (in Middle Persian: 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 drahm), which was itself based on the Greek dram/drachma. [2] In Egypt in 1895, it was equivalent to 47.661 troy grains (3.088 g). [3]
The para (Ottoman Turkish: پاره, romanized: pare, para, from Persian پاره, Sorani Kurdish: پارە pâre, 'piece'; [1] [2] Cyrillic: пара) was a former currency of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar.
Libya's oil revenues have stoked tension for years in a country that has had little stability since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. It split in 2014 with eastern and western factions that eventually ...
Libyan half pound, with the portrait of King Idris of Libya. When Libya was a part of the Ottoman Empire, the country used the Ottoman piastre, with Tripoli issuing some coins locally between 1808 and 1839. [19] Then in 1911, when Italy took over the country, the Italian lira was introduced.