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AFN - Afghan Afghani (؋)

Afghan Afghani

The Afghan Afghani (AFN) was introduced in 2003 as the new currency for Afghanistan. Two distinct rates were established: the government issue of 1000 and the northern alliance of 2000. Prior to 2003 the currency was the Afghanistan Afghani (AFA). There is no stock market. Money lending as well as foreign exchange is done through money bazaars.

The Afghan Afghani is the currency in Afghanistan (AF, AFG). The symbol for AFN can be written Af. The Afghan Afghani is divided into 100 puls. The exchange rate for the Afghan Afghani was last updated on May 24, 2019 from Yahoo Finance. The AFN conversion factor has 3 significant digits.

Economy

• Afghanistan relies on foreign aid, trade, and farming from bordering countries.
• The country and international concerns are focusing on improving infrastructure by creating jobs, promoting development of housing, and investing in education.
• International groups contributed over $2 billion to help Afghanistan’s dying economy.
• Afghanistan's agricultural products include wheat, wool, nuts, mutton, opium, lamb skin, and sheep skin.
• Afghanistan exports mainly nuts, fruit, carpets, and cotton.
• Imports include textiles, petroleum products, and capital goods.

History

• The first Afghani (AFA) was introduced in 1925. Before this time period the Afghan Rupee was the official currency.
• From the year 1925 to the year 1928 Afghani treasury notes were introduced.
• In 1975, all Afghanistan banks were nationalized.
• In 1981, the Afghani was pegged to the United States Dollar at 1 USD = 50 Afghanis.
• Afghanistan was taken over by Taliban rulers in 1996. The Taliban central bank declared the Afghanistan Afghani worthless and the bank cancelled the contract they had with Russia for printing their money. The country's currency was devalued against the US dollar to a rate of 1 USD = 43 Afghani.
• In 2002, the new Afghan Afghani currency (AFN) was introduced. In October, 2003 Afghanistan started using AFN as the official currency in local trade.
• In 2005, Afghani coins replaced the 1, 2, and 5 Afghani banknotes.
• Since 2005 the Afghanistan economy has grown at a steady pace.

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TRY - Turkish Lira (TL)

The Turkish lira, usually abbreviated as TL, is the official currency of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Its symbol is ₺ and its official currency code is TRY. The most popular lira exchange is with the euro. The lira has 6 significant currency conversion factor digits, and is considered fiat currency. It’s the 16th most traded currency in the world by value.

The Turkish Lira is the official currency of Turkey. It is subdivided into 100 kurus. All the notes and coins have portraits on the obverse side of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at different points of his life since the 1930s. The Central Bank of Turkey is holding a contest to find a new currency sign.

The Turkish Lira is the currency in Turkey (TR, TUR), and Northern Cyprus. The Turkish Lira is also known as the Yeni Turk Lirasi. The symbol for TRY can be written YTL. The Turkish Lira is divided into 100 new kurus. The exchange rate for the Turkish Lira was last updated on May 24, 2019 from Yahoo Finance. The TRY conversion factor has 5 significant digits.

Economy

• Turkey has a well-developed economy. It is among the world’s leading producers of agricultural products, textiles, motor vehicles, ships and other transportation equipment, construction materials, consumer electronics, and home appliances.
• In recent years, Turkey’s private sector has been growing rapidly, but the state still plays a major role in industry, banking, communications, and transport.
• Turkey has the world’s 15th largest GDP-PPP and the 17th largest nominal GDP. The country is a founding member of the OECD (1961) and is one of the G20 major economies (1999).
• The World Bank classifies Turkey as an upper-middle income country in terms of its per capita GDP in the year 2007. According to a survey by Forbes magazine, Istanbul, Turkey’s financial capital, had a total of 28 billionaires as of March 2010 (down from 35 in 2008), which ranks it 4th in the world behind New York City (60 billionaires), Moscow (50 billionaires), and London (32 billionaires).
• Turkey has had high inflation rates compared to other developed countries, but has never experienced hyperinflation.

History

• Because of chronic inflation in Turkey from the 1970s to the 1990s, the Lira depreciated greatly in value.
• In the last few years, the Turkish Lira has stabilized and even risen against the US Dollar and the Euro.
• The Lira had slid in value to such an extent that, before the 2005 revaluation, one original gold Lira coin was worth approximately 120,000,000 Lira.

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