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In 1966, coins were introduced in the name of Qatar and Dubai for 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 dirhams. In 1973, a new series of coins was introduced in the same sizes and compositions as the earlier pieces but in the name of Qatar only. Only 25 and 50 dirham coins are now circulated, although smaller coins remain legal tender. [citation needed]
Due to centuries of trade and usage of the currency, dirham survived through the Ottoman Empire. Before 1966, all the emirates that now form the UAE used the Gulf rupee, which was pegged at parity to the Indian rupee. On 6 June 1966, India decided to devalue the Gulf rupee against the Indian rupee.
Bhutanese rupee – Bhutan; Burmese rupee – Burma; Danish Indian rupee – Danish India; East African rupee – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda; French Indian rupee – French India; Gulf rupee – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Empirates; Hyderabad rupee – Hyderabad; Indian rupee (रुपया) – India; Javan rupee ...
The Indian government announced on Aug. 14 that the country’s leading petroleum refiner, Indian Oil Corp., used the local rupee to buy one million barrels of oil from the Abu Dhabi National Oil ...
100 Morocco: Moroccan dirham: DH MAD Centime: 100 Mozambique: Mozambican metical: Mt MZN Centavo: 100 Myanmar: Burmese kyat: K or Ks (pl.) MMK Pya: 100 Namibia: Namibian dollar $ NAD Cent: 100 South African rand: R ZAR Cent: 100 Nauru: Australian dollar $ AUD Cent: 100 Nepal: Nepalese rupee: रु NPR Paisa: 100 Indian rupee ₹ INR Paisa: 100 ...
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.
This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
It was introduced as a replacement for the Indian rupee for circulation exclusively outside the country. [2] Effectively, the common currency area now did not include India. On 6 June 1966, India devalued the Gulf rupee against the Indian rupee. Following the devaluation, several of the states still using the Gulf rupee adopted their own ...