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South Africa: South African rand: R ZAR Cent: 100 South Ossetia: Russian ruble ₽ RUB Kopeck: 100 South Sudan: South Sudanese pound: SS£ SSP Piaster: 100 Spain: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan rupee: Re or Rs (pl.) LKR Cent: 100 Sudan: Sudanese pound: LS SDG Piastre: 100 Suriname: Surinamese dollar $ SRD Cent: 100 Sweden: Swedish ...
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
These included shells, [1] ingots, gold (gold dust and gold coins (the Asante)), arrowheads, iron, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others. In the early 19th century a slave could be bought in West Africa with manilla currency ; multiples of X-shaped rings of bronze or other metal that could be strung on a staff.
Each currency typically has a main currency unit (the dollar, for example, or the euro) and a fractional unit, often defined as 1 ⁄ 100 of the main unit: 100 cents = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc, 100 pence = 1 pound, although units of 1 ⁄ 10 or 1 ⁄ 1000 occasionally also occur.
[12] In 2014, South Africa experienced its worst year against the US dollar since 2009, [13] and in March 2015, the rand traded at its worst since 2002. [13] At the time, Trading Economics released data that the rand "averaged R4.97 to the dollar between 1972–2015, reaching an all time high of R12.45 in December 2001 and a record low of R0.67 ...
Dahabshiil (Somali: Dahabshiil, Arabic: دهب شيل) is a Somali funds transfer company, and is the largest money-transfer business in Africa. [1] It's headquartered in Burao Somaliland . [ 2 ] Formed in 2004, the firm operates from over 24,000 outlets and employs more than 2,000 people across 126 countries. [ 3 ]
On July 14, 1969, the United States Department of the Treasury announced that all notes in denominations greater than US$100 would be discontinued. [1] Since 1969 banks are required to send any $1000 bill to the Department of the Treasury for destruction. [5] Collectors value the one-thousand-dollar bill with a gold seal. [6]
Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1] For example: 150,000 rupees is "1.5 lakh rupees" which can be written as "1,50,000 rupees", and 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees is referred to as "3 crore rupees" which is can be ...