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This exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling continued until the early 1960s when Egypt devalued slightly and switched to a peg to the United States dollar, at a rate of E£1 = US$2.3. The Egyptian pound was also used in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1899 and 1956, and Cyrenaica when it was under British occupation and later an ...
The Egyptian pound is sliding against foreign currencies, inching nearer to 50 per U.S. dollar after a recent hike in subway fares and fuel prices. The currency reached 49.16 to the U.S. dollar ...
Present currency ISO 4217 code Country or dependency (administrating country) Currency symbol Algerian dinar: DZD Algeria: دج (Arabic) or DA (Latin) Bahraini dinar [1] BHD Bahrain.د.ب [2] Iraqi dinar [3] IQD Iraq: ع.د [4] Jordanian dinar [5] JOD Jordan: ينار [6] Kuwaiti dinar [7] KWD Kuwait: ك [7] Tunisian dinar: TND Tunisia
Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. From the 1850s until the 1930s, Egypt's economy was heavily reliant on long-staple cotton, introduced in the mid-1820s during the reign of Muhammad Ali (1805–49) and made possible by the switch from basin irrigation to perennial, modern irrigation. [25]
Egypt on Wednesday floated its currency and announced a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase its bailout loan from $3 billion to $8 billion, moving to shore up an economy hit by a ...
1/2 Millieme, Kingdom of Egypt 1938, King Farouk I The Egyptian pound is divided into 1,000 milliemes , 10 milliemes equal 1 piastre (25 piastres is the smallest currently-minted coin). The Tunisian dinar is divided into 1,000 millimes (10 millimes is the smallest currently-minted coin).
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Calling the US dollar a piastre is still common among speakers of Cajun French and New England French. Modern French uses dollar for this unit of currency as well. The term is still used as slang for US dollars in the French-speaking Caribbean islands, most notably Haiti. Piastre is another name for kuruş, 1 ⁄ 100 of the Turkish lira.