Coin systems with more than one subunit

[<k>]

I experienced such a system in the UK before 1971, when we had pounds, shillings and pence. We also had farthing, florins and crowns, but these were just names for coins of a particular denomination and were not official subunits.

In Malta before the euro, mils and cents were the subunits of the lira.

[quaziright]

I believe Jordan and Egypt have/had a mix of piastres, fils and Qirsh

[chrisild]

In Malta before the euro, mils and cents were the subunits of the lira.

Hmm, not quite. Malta had a "three-unit" setup until 1983; then the pound was replaced by a decimal lira (Lm 1 = 100 cents). And of course, if we go back in history, we could list many currency systems with two (maybe even more) sub-units.

Christian

[<k>]

So my dates were out with Malta. In 1986 Malta introduced a new coin series without mils.

[<k>]

According to Wikipedia:

The Egyptian pound is divided into 100 piastres or ersh, or 1,000 milliemes.

But does Egypt now use any coin lower than 1 piastre?

[<k>]

According to Wikipedia:

The Jordanian dinar is divided into 10 dirhams, 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fulus.

I think 'fils' is more usual than fulus - for Europeans, anyway. What is currently the lowest denomination of coin in circulation in Jordan?

[stef]

Vietnam, before 1978, had 1 đồng = 10 hào, 1 hào = 10 xu. From 1978 only đồng and hào. With the inflation the hao disappeared from circulation but I don't know when.

[<k>]

Thank you, stef.

[stef]

The Libyan pound (1952-1971) also had qirsh (1/100) and millims (1/1000)

[stef]

Zaire - 1 zaïre = 100 makuta, 1 likuta = 100 sengi

[stef]

China - 1 圓 = 10 角, 1 角 = 10 分 (yuan, jiao, fen).

[andyg]

According to Wikipedia:

The Egyptian pound is divided into 100 piastres or ersh, or 1,000 milliemes.

But does Egypt now use any coin lower than 1 piastre?

Smallest coin is 50 Piastres, very rare to find any coins in change - lots of almost worthless banknotes though!

[andyg]

According to Wikipedia:

The Jordanian dinar is divided into 10 dirhams, 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fulus.

I think 'fils' is more usual than fulus - for Europeans, anyway. What is currently the lowest denomination of coin in circulation in Jordan?

When I was there back in 2005, the smallest coin was a Piastre (there was a current ½ Piastre but that had fallen out of use even by then)

[<k>]

Thank you, all. I see andyg seemed to have a taste for hot sandy countries.

[Henk]

The US has 1$ = 10 dimes and 1 dime = 10 cents