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In the Netherlands, a ' ton ' is a colloquialism for a denomination of 100.000 monetary units. In the guilders period a ton would denote 100.000 guilders. With the introduction of the euro, a ton would come to mean 100.000 euros. The usage is mostly limited to the financial sphere and the buying and selling of houses.
Florin. The Florentine florin was a gold coin (in Italian Fiorino d'oro) struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time. [1] It had 54 grains (3.499 grams, 0.1125 troy ounces) of nominally pure or 'fine' gold [2] with a purchasing power difficult to estimate (and variable) but ...
Maximum DWT is the amount of weight a ship can carry without riding dangerously low in the water. Scale for a 6,000 tonne DWT ship. Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight; abbreviated to DWT, D.W.T., d.w.t., or dwt) or tons deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. [1] [2] [3] It is the sum of the weights of cargo ...
The U.S. Dollar Index ( USDX, DXY, DX, or, informally, the "Dixie") is an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies, [1] often referred to as a basket of U.S. trade partners' currencies. [2] The Index goes up when the U.S. dollar gains "strength" (value) when compared to other currencies.
The history of money is the development over time of systems for the exchange, storage, and measurement of wealth. Money is a means of fulfilling these functions indirectly and in general rather than directly, as with barter . Money may take a physical form as in coins and notes, or may exist as a written or electronic account.
Gross tonnage is calculated by measuring a ship's volume (from keel to funnel, to the outside of the hull framing) and applying a mathematical formula. Gross tonnage ( GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. [1] Neither gross tonnage nor gross register ...
The Bank of Laos governor announced on January 25, 2012, that the Bank of Laos would issue 100,000 Kip banknotes as a regular issue on February 1, 2012 (but dated 2011) to encourage Lao people to use the national currency instead of U.S. dollars and Thai baht.
The Indonesian one hundred thousand rupiah banknote (Rp100,000) is a denomination of the Indonesian rupiah. Being the highest and second-newest denomination of the rupiah (after the Rp2,000 note ), it was first introduced on November 1, 1999, as a polymer banknote [1] [2] before switching to cotton paper in 2004; [3] all notes have been printed ...