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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 ...
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.
Bermudian pound – Bermuda; Biafran pound – Biafra; British West African pound – Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone; Canadian pound – Canada; Connecticut pound – Connecticut; Cypriot pound – Cyprus, Akrotiri and Dhekelia; Delaware pound – Delaware; Egyptian pound – Egypt; Falkland Islands pound ...
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.
1000 Ireland: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 Isle of Man: Manx pound £ (none) Penny: 100 Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 Israel: Israeli new shekel ₪ ILS Agora: 100 Italy: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 Jamaica: Jamaican dollar $ JMD Cent: 100 Japan: Japanese yen ¥ JPY Sen [C] 100 Jersey: Jersey pound £ (none) Penny: 100 Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 Jordan ...
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 ...
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.