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The birr (Amharic: ብር) is the primary unit of currency in Ethiopia.It is subdivided into 100 santims.. In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie formally requested that the international community use the name Ethiopia (as it had already been known internally for at least 1,600 years) instead of the exonym Abyssinia, and the issuing Bank of Abyssinia also became the Bank of Ethiopia.
The rupee sign " ₨ " is a currency sign used to represent the monetary unit of account in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, and formerly in India. It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence "Rs", of which (as a single character) it is an orthographic ligature. It is common to find a punctuation mark ...
Many African countries change their currency's appearance when a new government takes power (often the new head of state will appear on bank notes), though the notional value remains the same. Also, in many African currencies there have been episodes of rampant inflation, resulting in the need for currency revaluation (e.g. the Zimbabwe dollar ).
The Indian rupee sign ₹ is the currency symbol for the Indian rupee ( ISO 4217: INR), the official currency of India. Designed by D. Udaya Kumar, it was presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, [1] following its selection through an open competition among Indian residents. [2] [3] Before its adoption, the most ...
List of circulating currencies. There are 180 currencies recognized as legal tender in United Nations (UN) member states, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, partially recognized or unrecognized states, and their dependencies. [citation needed] However, excluding the pegged (fixed exchange rate) currencies, there are only 130 ...
An airline ticket showing the price with ISO 4217 code "EUR" (bottom left) and not with euro currency sign " € "ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
Currency Symbol ISO 4217 code Minor unit Rupees per U.S. dollar (As of 15 May 2023) Established Preceding currency India Indian rupee ₹ INR Paisa = 1 ⁄ 100 rupee 82.23556 1540 no modern predecessor Indonesia Indonesian rupiah: Rp IDR Sen = 1 ⁄ 100 rupiah 14,803.215 1949 Netherlands Indies gulden Maldives Maldivian rufiyaa: Rf, MRf, MVR ...
The Labor Department reported Thursday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.2% from April to May after rising 0.5% the month before ...