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The riyal has been the currency of Saudi Arabia since the country came into being and was the currency of Hejaz before Saudi Arabia was created, one of the primary currencies in the Mediterranean region during the Ottoman era. The Hejaz riyal was based on but not equivalent to the Ottoman 20 kuruş coin and was consequently divided into 20 qirsh.
In 1932, the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd became Saudi Arabia, and in 1936 the riyal was debased so as to correspond in weight and fineness to the Indian rupee. Meanwhile, on 19 April 1931, Iraq , which had emerged as a British Mandate on the territory of Mesopotamia , adopted the Iraqi dinar at a 1:1 parity with the pound sterling, to replace the ...
The Bangladeshi taka ( Bengali: টাকা, sign: ৳, code: BDT, short form: Tk) is the currency of Bangladesh. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+09F3 ৳ BENGALI RUPEE SIGN . Issuance of bank notes ৳ 10 and larger is controlled by Bangladesh Bank, while the ৳ 2 and ৳ 5 banknotes are the responsibility of the ministry of finance.
Remittances to Bangladesh are money transfers (remittances) sent by the Bangladeshi diaspora to Bangladesh. According to the World Bank , Bangladesh is the 7th highest recipient of remittances in the world [ 1 ] with almost $22.1 billion in 2021 and was the third highest recipient of remittances in South Asia . [ 2 ]
The dinar ( Arabic: دينار بحريني Dīnār Baḥrēnī) ( sign: .د.ب or BD; code: BHD) is the currency of Bahrain. It is divided into 1000 fils ( فلس ). The Bahraini dinar is abbreviated د.ب (Arabic) or BD (Latin). It is usually represented with three decimal places denoting the fils. The name dinar derives from the ...
The rupee was pegged to British Pound until 1982 when the government of General Zia-ul-Haq changed to a managed float. As a result, the rupee devalued by 38.5% between 1982–83 and 1987–88 and the cost of importing raw materials increased rapidly, causing pressure on Pakistani finances and damaging much of the industrial base.
Egyptian pound: EGP Egypt £E or ج.م or L.E. Lebanese pound [10] LBP Lebanon £L and ل.ل [10] [11] Sudanese pound: SDG Sudan: SDG or ج.س Syrian pound [12] SYP Syria £S [13] Omani rial [14] OMR Oman: ر.ع [15] Qatari riyal [16] QAR Qatar: ر.ق [17] Saudi riyal [18] SAR Saudi Arabia: SR [19] Yemeni rial [20] YER Yemen ﷼ [21] Israeli ...
On 7 May 1970 [ 6][ 7] the Saidi rial (named after the House of Al Said, not to be confused with Saudi riyal) was introduced as the currency of Oman to replace the Gulf rupee. It was equal to the British pound sterling and 1 Saidi rial = 21 Gulf rupees. The Saidi rial was subdivided into 1000 baisa.