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A silver Phi Long coin of 1 tiền issued under the Minh Mạng Emperor in 1833. The term tiền (chữ Hán: 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Chinese qián (錢), a unit of weight called "mace" in English.
Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...
The introduction of the forint on 1 August 1946 was a crucial step in the post-World War II stabilisation of the Hungarian economy, and the currency remained relatively stable until the 1980s. Transition to a market economy in the early 1990s adversely affected the value of the forint; inflation peaked at 35% in 1991.
Many Vietnamese fonts intended for desktop publishing are encoded in VNI or TCVN3 . [9] Such fonts are known as "ABC fonts". [12] Popular web browsers lack support for specialty Vietnamese encodings, so any webpage that uses these fonts appears as unintelligible mojibake on systems without them installed. At right, an í that retains its tittle
After the introduction of paper money of the Austro-Hungarian gulden (Hungarian: forint) in Hungary, the term pengő forint was used to refer to forint coins literally meaning 'ringing forint', figuratively meaning 'silver forint' or 'hard currency'. [2] At the beginning of the First World War, precious metal coins were recalled from circulation.
1.45 mm 3.2 g Nickel-plated steel Plain Coat of arms: Denomination 2003 17 December 2003 April 2011 Very rare, partly withdrawn out of circulation 500 dong 22 mm 1.75 mm 4.5 g Nickel-plated steel Segmented (3 groups) 1 April 2004 [24] [25] 1,000 dong 19 mm 1.95 mm 3.8 g Brass-plated steel Reeded Coat of arms: Water Temple, Đô Temple 2003
The 200 forint note was replaced with a new 200 forint coin on 15 June 2009, [3] decorated with the Chain Bridge, as chosen in an internet poll in October 2008. [4] Reportedly, large numbers of 1 forint coins were illegally used in Canada in place of subway tokens, a highly profitable trade until the machines were reprogrammed.
1 August 1946 31 March 1948 31 March 1948 100 Ft 158 × 72 mm Dark blue Mrs. János Tőkés (Ms. Gizella Várszegi), an employee of the Banknote Printing Office, posed for the illustration Hands holding a hammer and ears of wheat 3 June 1946 7 August 1946 1 May 1951 31 December 1948 These images are to scale at 0.7 pixel per millimetre.