Denarii (was: Celtic months)

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Padraic Brown wrote:

> ["Denarius"] a very widespread monetary name, from Peru in the west
> to Afghanistan in the east, used in one form or other by nearly 20
> countries.

I don't have access to a list of non-principal money names, but
among principal monetary units analogous to "dollar" or "pound", 
I find only the Algerian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Libyan, Tunisian,
and Yemeni dinars and the Macedonian denar.  Peru's unit is the
sol, Afghanistan's the afghani.

Source: ISO 4217:1981 with amendments at
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso4217-en.html

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)