Money

[Waterwolf]

Do all currencies subdivide into a hundred smaller units? (100 pence to a pound, etc)

[SRAYN1]

All world currencies now seem to be decimal - but not all divide into 100 units. A good example of this is Mauritania where the ouguiya comprises 5 khoums. In Libya, the dinar has 1,000 dirhams. And the Bahrain dinar is made up of 1,000 fils.

Favourite currency names are the Vietnamese the new dong (no, I'm not making this up), which divided into 10 hao or 100 xu; the Bhutan ngultrum (100 chetrum); and the Tonga pa'anga (100 seniti).

Older Answerbank readers will, of course, recall that before British decimalisation, there were 240 pence to the pound; 12 pence to the shilling; and a guinea was 21 shillings. A shilling was called a bob, sixpence was a tanner and threepence was a joey. Aah, they don't make 'em like that any more.

[tonyp]

Steve - you missed out Florins (two shillings, 24 pennies) and Half-crowns (two shillings and sixpence), but you're on your own with the joey. How did you get those baby kangaroos in your pocket? Of course, you have a problem dividing Italian Lire into 100ths, the value is too small to have anything to represent it!