Re: OT: coins and currency

Roger Mills wrote:
>>Speaking of "dollar," what other common words could be used in place of
>>"dollar" as a word for the lowest non-change denomination in a given
>>culture's currency?
>>
>
> Well, on Cindu there's the taruna coin (slang truni); the Gwr call it tru
> ni; worth somewhat more than a dollar though I don't know the present
> exchange rate.....  The currency is decimal. "Cent" is kurok (slang kroki) <
> kurongo 'hundredth'. There 50kr, 25kr, 10kr, 5kr and 1kr coins called resp.
> mekunjo or kronjo (< 'divide'), kroka (< 4), kropot (<10), kronim (<5) and
> kromi~krombi (< -mik 'little') or prangi (< 'zinc'). There are also 1 and 2
> truni coins, everything above that is paper.
The Fifth Empire Kassi's basic unit was the _khof_ (pl. kopein), which
was divided into 108 _salhech_ (sg. zalh).  Historically, it was a bit
more complicated.  1 khof = 9 vazha, 1 vezh = 12 zalhech, but then it
was simplified by eliminating the vezh.  There had been a plan to
duodecimalize (they use base-12), but it failed.

The khof is worth ~$8.  Their smallest banknote (polymer) is the 3-khof,
and even that is more common as a coin.

Their currency is:
Coins
1z
3z
6z
12z
36z
1kh
3kh
6kh (uncommon)
12kh (rare)

Banknotes
3kh (uncommon)
6kh
12kh
36kh
72kh
144kh