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The word shekel is based on the triliteral Proto-Semitic root ṯql, cognate to the Akkadian šiqlu or siqlu, a unit of weight equivalent to the Sumerian gin2. [1] Use of the word was first attested in c. 2150 BC under the reign of Naram-Sin of Akkad, and later in c. 1700 BC in the Code of Hammurabi.
Alexander the Great on the first Albanian 1 Lek coin.. The lek was introduced as the first Albanian currency in February 1926. [2]Before then, Albania was a country without a currency, adhering to a gold standard for the fixation of commercial values.
International dollar – hypothetical currency pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar; Jamaican dollar – Jamaica; Kiautschou dollar – Qingdao; Kiribati dollar – Kiribati; Liberian dollar – Liberia; Malaya and British Borneo dollar – Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei; Malayan dollar – Brunei, Malaysia and ...
Other cities named in the books are Niedzdrow, Istov, Dbrnouk, Douma, Tesznik, and Zlip. The population of Syldavia is 642,000 with 122,000 living in Klow, suggesting the country is similar in size to Montenegro. The national airline is Syldair and the official currency is the khôr. One khôr is subdivided into 100 paroe.
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.
The Lebanese lira uses £L (before numerals) or L.L. (after numerals) in Latin and ل.ل. in Arabic. The Syrian lira uses £S (before numerals) or L.S. (after numerals) in Latin and ل.س in Arabic. The Italian lira had no official sign, but the abbreviations L. and Lit. and the symbols ₤ (two bars), £ (one bar) were all commonly used.
Slavonia's first minted currency was the frizatik, [3] but in the 13th century the Ban of Slavonia issued a marten-adorned silver coin called the banovac. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The idea of a kuna currency reappeared in 1939 when the Banovina of Croatia , an autonomous province established within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , planned to issue its own money ...
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