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UAE dirham [8] AED United Arab Emirates: AED [9] Moroccan dirham: MAD Morocco: DH Djiboutian franc: DJF Djibouti: Fdj Egyptian pound: EGP Egypt £E or ج.م or L.E. Lebanese pound [10] LBP Lebanon £L and ل.ل [10] [11] Sudanese pound: SDG Sudan: SDG or ج.س Syrian pound [12] SYP Syria £S [13] Omani rial [14] OMR Oman: ر.ع [15] Qatari ...
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 continued with its exchange rate of £E = £1 0s 6d sterling until the beginning of the 1960s.
Hence the Egyptian and Turkish units split from each other in value, with the Egyptian unit continuing its exchange value of 97.5 piastres to the pound sterling. In 1885, Egypt went into a purely gold standard , and the Egyptian pound unit, known as the juneih , was introduced at E£1 = 7.4375 grammes of fine gold.
The dirham was a unit of mass used across North Africa, the Middle East, Persia and Ifat; later known as Adal, with varying values. The value of Islamic dirham was 14 qirat. 10 dirham equals 7 mithqal (2.975 gm of silver). In the late Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: درهم), the standard dirham was 3.207 g; [1] 400 dirhem equal one oka.
This includes fractional units that have no physical form but are recognized by the issuing state, such as the United States mill, [A] the Egyptian millieme, [B] and the Japanese rin. [ C ] Currencies used by non-state entities, like the Sovereign Military Order of Malta , scrips used by private entities, and other private , virtual , and ...
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). The Kuwaiti dinar, Bahraini dinar, Jordanian dinar, and Iraqi dinar are divided into 1,000 fils. The smallest ...
The primary functions which distinguish money are: medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment. Money was historically an emergent market phenomenon that possessed intrinsic value as a commodity; nearly all contemporary money systems are based on unbacked fiat money without use value.
Because of the debased values of the piastres in the Middle East, these piastres became subsidiary units for the Turkish, Lebanese, Cypriot, and Egyptian pounds. [1] Meanwhile, in Indochina, the piastre continued into the 1950s and was subsequently renamed the riel , the kip , and the dong in Cambodia , Laos and Vietnam respectively.