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To curb counterfeiting, a new 5-rand coin was released in August 2004. Security features introduced on the coin include a bimetal design (similar to the €1 and €2 coins, the Thai ฿10 coin, the pre-2018 Philippine ₱10 coin, the British £2 coin, and the Canadian $2 coin), a specially serrated security groove along the rim and microlettering.
[14] [15] The combined effects of the preceding floods and Eline left about 300,000 people homeless, [16] about 700 deaths, and damage estimated at $500 million (2000 USD). [13] The cyclone and the floods disrupted much of the economic progress Mozambique had made in the 1990s since the end of its civil war . [ 17 ]
It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the euro. The New Currency Act of 1871 introduced Japan's modern currency system, with the yen defined as 1.5 g (0.048 troy ounces) of gold, or 24.26 g (0.780 troy ounces) of silver, and divided decimally into 100 sen or 1,000 rin .