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The mohar was the currency of the Kingdom of Nepal from the second half of the 17th century until 1932. Silver and gold mohars were issued, each subdivided into 128 dams. Copper dams were also issued, together with copper paisa worth 4 copper dams. The values of the copper, silver and gold coinages relative to one another were not fixed until 1903.
The Nepalese rupee was introduced in 1932 when it replaced the Nepalese mohar at the rate 2:1. [2] [citation needed] The Nepalese rupee (रु.) has been pegged to the Indian rupee (₹) at the rate रु.1.60 = ₹1 since 1994; prior to this, it had been pegged at the rate रु.1.45 = ₹1. [3]
The currency unit of the Tribhuvan and early Mahendra notes was the mohar (spelt moru on the banknotes), which originally was a silver coin which weighed about 5.4 grams and represented about half an Indian Rupee.
French Indian rupee; Travancore Rupee; Rupee. ... Mohar – Nepal; Pound. Jordanian pound; ... European Currency Unit and 23 national currencies which were replaced ...
The Mohur is a gold coin that was formerly minted by several governments, including British India and some of the princely states which existed alongside it, the Mughal Empire, Maratha Empire, Kingdom of Nepal, and Persia (chiefly Afghanistan). It was usually equivalent in value to fifteen silver rupees.
The Indian rupee was the official currency of Dubai and Qatar until 1959, when India created a new Gulf rupee (also known as the "external rupee") to hinder the smuggling of gold. [16] The Gulf rupee was legal tender until 1966, when India significantly devalued the Indian rupee and a new Qatar-Dubai riyal was established to provide economic ...
In the early 20th century the large ingots were worth about 60–70 Indian rupees, the ingots of medium size 12–14 rupees and the smallest ingots 2–3 rupees. [7] British-Indian authors occasionally refer to the silver bars found in Tibet, some of which were imported from Kashgar , as "yambus", an expression which derives from Chinese yuanbao .
Nepalese mohar; S. Sukaa This page was last edited on 1 April 2019, at 01:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...