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  2. Turkish lira - Wikipedia

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    The Turkish lira, the French livre (until 1794), the Italian lira (until 2002), Lebanese pound and the pound unit of account in sterling (a translation of the Latin libra; the word "pound" as a unit of weight is still abbreviated as "lb.") are the modern descendants of the ancient currency.

  3. Ottoman lira - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1930s and the Turkish alphabet reform, the Arabic script was used on Turkish coins and banknotes, with پاره for para, قروش for kuruş and ليرا for lira (تورك ليراسي for 'Turkish lira'). In European languages, the kuruş was known as the piastre, whilst the lira was known as the livre in French and the pound in ...

  4. British currency in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Lira - Wikipedia

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    Cypriot lira/pound 1879–2007; merged into the euro, 2008; French livre 781–1794; became the French franc; Israeli lira/pound 1948–1980; replaced by the old shekel in 1980. Italian lira 1861–2002; merged into the euro, 1999 (notes and coins from 2002) Italian East African lira 1938–1941; supplanted by the East African shilling

  6. List of currencies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Turkish lira euro (unofficial) sterling (unofficial) ₺ € £ TRY. EUR GBP kuruş. cent penny. Cypriot pound South Ossetia Georgia: Russian ruble ₽ RUB kopeck: Soviet ruble Transnistria Moldova: Transnistrian ruble: руб PRB (unofficial) kopeck Soviet ruble

  7. Currency symbol - Wikipedia

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    The modern dollar and peso symbols originated from the mark employed to denote the Spanish dollar, [2] whereas the pound and lira symbols evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as ) standing for libra, a Roman pound of silver.

  8. Kuruş - Wikipedia

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    In 1844, the Turkish gold lira was introduced as the new standard denomination. It was divided into 100 silver kuruş and the kuruş continued to circulate until the 1970s. Kuruş eventually became obsolete due to the chronic inflation in Turkey in the late 1970s. A currency reform on 1 January 2005 provided its return as 1 ⁄ 100 of the new lira.

  9. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [3] The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4]