DENOMINATIONS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE: SOMONI

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DENOMINATIONS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE: SOMONI

Regarding our discussion of currency denominations named after people, web site visitor Movin Miranda writes:

There's also the Somoni , the currency of Tajikistan.

Thanks! At my request Movin (of Bangalore India and Kuala Lampur, Malaysia) supplied these web page references. -Editor

New national currency of Tajikistan -somoni is introduced since October 30, 2000. 1 somoni=100 dirams. The new monetary unit is named in honour of Ismoil Somoni (849-907) - founder of the first centralized state of Tajiks – Samanids State.

To read the complete articles, see:
Banknotes and coins (http://web.archive.org/web/20070429222727/http://www.nbt.tj/en/?c=3&id=3)
Tajikistani somoni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistani_somoni)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
ANSWERS: DENOMINATIONS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n38a10.html)

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