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  2. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    1 000: 1 000 kr bill: comes from slang of the bills during the 80s when the banknotes used to be very long and therefore were called “lakan” meaning bed sheet skjorta: 10 000: 10 000 kr: used in Östermalm, Stockholm Kanin: 1 000 000: 1 000 000 kr: meaning “rabbit”, comes from Egyptian arabic Hare: 10 000 000: 10 000 000 kr

  3. Guinea (coin) - Wikipedia

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    The first guinea was produced on 6 February 1663 (361 years ago) (); a proclamation of 27 March 1663 made the coins legal currency.One troy pound of 11 ⁄ 12 (0.9133) [citation needed] fine gold (22 carat or 0.9167 pure by weight) would make 44 + 1 ⁄ 2 guineas, [5] each thus theoretically weighing 129.438 grains (8.385 grams crown gold, 7.688 grams fine gold, or 0.247191011 ozt (troy ounces ...

  4. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    The same coinage act also set the value of an eagle at 10 dollars, and the dollar at 110 eagle. It called for silver coins in denominations of 1, 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, 110, and 120 dollar, as well as gold coins in denominations of 1, 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 ⁄ 4 eagle. The value of gold or silver contained in the dollar was then converted ...

  5. Banknotes of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    They switched to small size in 1929 and are the only type of currency in circulation today in the United States. They were originally printed in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. The $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 denominations were last printed in 1945 and discontinued in 1969, making the $100 bill ...

  6. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion. Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in ...

  7. Exchange rate history of the Indian rupee - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.

  8. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    Trillion. Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power ), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and ...

  9. Malawian kwacha - Wikipedia

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    Source. Rbm Nov 2016 [ 1] The kwacha ( / ˈkwætʃə /; ISO 4217: MWK, official name Malawi Kwacha[ 2]) is the currency of Malawi as of 1971, replacing the Malawian pound. It is divided into 100 tambala. The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the British pound sterling, the South African rand, and the Rhodesian dollar, that had ...