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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.
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.
Egyptian Exchange البورصة المصرية (Egyptian Arabic) Type: Stock exchange: Location: Cairo, Egypt: Founded: 1883: Key people: Rami El-Dokany (Chairman) Currency: Egyptian pound: No. of listings: 266 [1] Market cap: US$37.5 billion (E£1.8 trillion) [1] Volume: E£2.9 billion [1] Indices: EGX 30 EGX 50 EGX 70 EGX 100: Website: egx.com
The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning 'by weight'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The currency's symbol is ' £ ' , a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' ( L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} ) (from libra ), crossed to indicate abbreviation.
In 1836, the Egyptian pound was first introduced and it became open for public use. [4] The bank floated the Egyptian pound during the morning of the 13th of November 2016. [5] [6] Financial reserves of the Egyptian pound stood at 2.24 trillion in December 2024. [7]
The exchange rate at which the transaction is done is called the spot exchange rate. As of 2010, the average daily turnover of global FX spot transactions reached nearly US$1.5 trillion, counting 37.4% of all foreign exchange transactions. [ 1 ]
Image of 10 Egyptian piastres (currently valueless, thus absent from circulation) A 100-piastre note from French Indochina, circa 1954 French Indochina piastre, 1885. The piastre or piaster (English: / p i ˈ æ s t ər /) is any of a number of units of currency. The term originates from the Italian for "thin metal plate".
The UK government devalued the pound sterling in November 1967 from £1 = $2.80 to £1 = $2.40. This was not welcomed in many parts of the sterling area, and, unlike in the 1949 devaluation, many sterling area countries did not devalue their currencies at the same time. This was the beginning of the end for the sterling area.