metical
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When the full extent of the borrowing was revealed, donors cut off support to Mozambique and its currency, the metical, collapsed.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021
“There’s no money in the market,” said Julio Sethy, who expanded his trucking business only to see demand plummet last year as Mozambique’s metical currency crashed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2016
A thousand of them are worth a metical or gold dinar; and they string them by thousands, with a knot distinguishing the hundreds.
No wonder: the black market pays up to 1,000 Mozambican meticais to the dollar, compared with the official exchange rate of 42.
From Time Magazine Archive
About 300,000 meticals of otto, valued at £932,077, were exported in 1876 from Philippopolis, chiefly to France, Australia, America, and Germany.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
The abacee weighs two meticals, the mahmoody is half an abacee, and the shahee is half a mahamoody.
The Venetian money is worth larines 88 per hundred meticals which is 150 drams of Aleppo, vt supra.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
Note that 100 meticals of Balsara weigh 17 ounces and a halfe sottile Venetian, and of Aleppo drams 150, vt supra.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
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