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Between 1844 and 1855, coins were introduced in denominations of 1p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 1 ⁄ 2 pt, 1pt, 2pt, 5pt, 10pt, 20pt and LT 1 ⁄ 4, LT 1 ⁄ 2, LT 1, LT 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 and LT 5. The para denominations were struck in copper, the kuruş in silver and the lira in gold. The 1p was discontinued in 1859, with the higher copper denominations ceasing ...
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The manat (Turkmen: manat; abbreviation: m; code: TMT) is the currency of Turkmenistan.The original manat was introduced on 1 November 1993, replacing the rouble at a rate of 1 manat = Rbls 500.
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At the time of the occupation in 1878, for the purpose of paying the troops the British government instructed that a Turkish lira was to be rated at 9 ⁄ 10 of a pound sterling. [5] There was a complication, however, in that although one lira was equal to 100 Turkish piastres , this rate differed in practice between different locations.
[2] Today the kuruş (pl. kuruşlar) is a Turkish currency subunit, with one Turkish lira equal to 100 kuruş as of the 2005 revaluation of the lira. Until the 1844 subdivision of the former Ottoman gold lira, the kuruş was the standard unit of currency within the Ottoman Empire, and was subdivided into 40 para or 120 akçe.
Lira is the name of several currency units. It is the current currency of Turkey and also the local name of the currencies of Lebanon and of Syria.It is also the name of several former currencies, including those of Italy, Malta and Israel.
A frame from the first colour film of a live giant squid in its natural habitat, [nb 1] recorded from a manned submersible off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in July 2012. The animal (#549 on this list) is seen feeding on a 1-metre-long Thysanoteuthis rhombus (diamondback squid), which was used as bait in conjunction with a flashing squid jig. [2]