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The currency weakened to beyond 50 Egyptian pounds to the dollar - far beyond previous records - from about 30.85 pounds, a level Egypt has for months tried to defend. It closed at 49.4 to the dollar.
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 ...
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.
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 £E1 = 7.4375
Hany Rashwan, CEO of Amun/21Shares, explains how the proverbial bitcoin lightbulb went off when his native Egypt’s currency devalued in 2016. How a Massive Devaluation of the Egyptian Pound ...
The $100 bills spirited out of the bank weighed nearly 200 pounds in total and required four men to cart it all away, the Post report said. The CIA had received intelligence that El-Sisi had been ...
Also, in many African currencies there have been episodes of rampant inflation, resulting in the need for currency revaluation (e.g. the Zimbabwe dollar). In some places there is a thriving street trade by unlicensed street traders in US dollars or other stable currencies, which are seen as a hedge against local inflation.
Bahgat said the court in Cairo also fined Kassem 20,000 Egyptian pounds (around $647). ... Kassem, who for decades ran a series of news outlets that helped keep alive pockets of independent, free ...