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Since the Middle East was a late addition to the British Empire, the British government had by then already learned from their experiences in places such as Canada, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Hong Kong that it is highly impractical to impose a new currency in the place of already existing ones. So, even though the pound unit of account eventually ...
Present currency ISO 4217 code Country or dependency (administrating country) Currency sign Fractional unit Russian Ruble [1] RUB Abkhazia: руб. [1] [2] Kopek [1] Afghan afghani [3] AFN Afghanistan ؋ [3] pul [3] Euro [4] EUR Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Great Britain) € [5] cent [5] Armenian dram [6] AMD Armenia [6] luma [6] Azerbaijani manat ...
British currency in the Middle East; Brunei dollar; ... Candareen; Cash (currency) Yuan (currency) Coinage of Asia; Commemorative coins of the Philippines; D. Digital ...
To the middle of the 20th century, the Indian rupee was also used as the official currency in the emirates on the eastern Arabian Peninsula, namely Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, and Oman. That meant, in effect, that the Indian rupee was the common currency in those territories as well as in India.
Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien), and Tibet.
Currencies of the British West Indies; International status and usage of the euro; Commonwealth banknote-issuing institutions; List of countries by leading trade partners; List of stock exchanges in the United Kingdom, the British Crown Dependencies and United Kingdom Overseas Territories
The board decided that the new currency would be called the Palestine pound, 1:1 with sterling and divided into 1,000 mils. [7] The £P1 gold coin would contain 123.27447 grains of standard gold. [7] The enabling legislation was the Palestine Currency Order, 1927, signed by the King in February 1927. [8]
Cash was a currency unit of Madras Province during the period of British rule in India. Specifically, it was a subunit of the fanam, rupee, and pagoda. 80 cash = 1 fanam; 12 fanams = 1 rupee; 42 fanams = 1 pagoda; Copper coins of 20 cash were called pice, 10 cash were called dodees, and 5 cash were called half dodees. [3]