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Argentine Confederation
100 centesimos equal - 1 dollar or patacon, equal $1.00 17 patacons equal 1 doubloon
Austria 100 kreutzers equal 1 florin, equal $0.47
British India
12 pies equal - - - - - 1 anna
16 anas " - - 1 rupee, equal $0.48
15 rupees" - - - - 1 mohur
Lac of rupees equal 100,000, equal - - £10,000
Crore of rupees equal 10,000,000 equal, - £1,000,000
Italy 100 centesimi equal - - 1 lira, equal $0.193
Burmah
4 great riveh equal - - 1 bais, equal $0.03
4 bais equal - - - - - 1 math
4 math " - - 1 tical or kyat
Accounts are kept in dollars and cents; and also in pounds, shillings and pence. See United States and Great Britain.
Cape of Good Hope
(See Great Britain)
100 Centavos equal - - 1 peso (dollar), $0.90
Mexico
100 cents equal - - 1 dollar, equal §1.00
Norway
24 skillingen equal - - 1 mark or ort
5 marks equal - - 1 species-daler, equal $1.07
100 ore equal - - - 1 krona, equal $0.25
Portugal
400 reis equal 1 cruzado
480 reis equal - - - 1 cruzado novo or pinto
1,000 reis equal - - - - - §1.08
4,500 reis equal - - 1 pound (English Coin)
Denmark
12 skillings equal .... 1 mark
6 mark equal - 1 rigsbankdaler (rixdaler) $0.53
Egypt
3 asper equal .... 1 para
40 para equal - - - 1 piastre, equal $0.05
France 100 centimes equal - - - 1 franc, equal $0.193
20 francs equal 1 napoleon or louis
Germany
10 pfennings equal - - - 1 groschen
10 groschens equal - - 1 mark, equal $0.235
30 groschens equal 1 thaler
Gibraltar
16 quartos equal 1 real
12 reals equal - - - 1 dollar, equal $1.00
100 cents equal - - - - 1 dollar
10 decimas de real vellon equal - 1 real de vellon
20 real de vellon equal - - 1 dollar, equal $1.00
100 reals de vellon equal 1 doblon
Greece
100 lepta equal - - 1 dracham, equal $0,193
Holland 100 cents equal - 1 gulden or florin, equal $0.40
Russia
100 copecks equal - 1 silver rouble, equal $0.72
10 roubles .... equal 1 imperial
The paper rouble equal - - $0.60 (about)
Siam
200 to 450 courties or bier equal - - 1 p'hainung
4 p'hainungs equal - - - 1 fuang
2 fuangs equal - - - 1 salung or miam
4 salungs equal 1 tical
4 ticals equal - - 1 tamlung, equal $2.40
Spain
100 centimos equal - - 1 peseta, equal $0.19
Sweden
100 ore equal - - 1 rixdaler, equal $0.27
Turkey
40 paras equal - - - - - 1 piastre
100 piastres equal 1 medjidie or liro turca, equal $4.32
Belgium
100 centimes equal - - 1 franc, equal $0.193
20 francs equal - - 1 napoleon or louis
Brazil
400 reis equal 1 cruzardo
480 reis " - - 1 cruzardo novo, or pinto
1,000 reis" - - 1 milreis, equal $ 0.55
Japan
10 mons Or sepei equal ... 1 rin
10 rin equal - - - - 1 sen
100 sens or tempos equal - 1 yen, equal $1.00
China
10 cash equal - - - 1 candareen (fun)
10 candareens equal 1 mace (tsien)
10 mace equal ... i tael (leang)
Among foreigners 1,000 cash (about) 1 dollar.
U. S. of Colombia
10 centavos equal 1 decimo
10 decimos equal - - 1 peso, equal $1.00
 
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