Spesmilo
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The spesmilo (Script error: No such module "IPA"., plural spesmiloj Script error: No such module "IPA".) is an obsolete decimal international currency, proposed in 1907 by René de Saussure and used before World War I by a few British and Swiss banks, primarily the Ĉekbanko Esperantista.
The spesmilo was equivalent to one thousand spesoj, and worth Script error: No such module "convert". of pure gold (0.8 grams of 22 karat gold), which at the time was about one-half United States dollar, two shillings (one-tenth of a pound sterling) in Britain, one Russian ruble, or <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+1⁄2 Swiss francs. On 6 November 2022, that quantity of gold would be worth about US$43.50,[1] £38 sterling,[2] €44,[3] ₽2692 Russian roubles,[4] and SFr 43 Swiss francs.[5]
The basic unit, the speso (from Italian spesa or German Spesen;[6] spesmilo is Esperanto for "a thousand pennies"), was purposely made very small to avoid fractions.
Sign
The spesmilo sign, called Script error: No such module "Lang". in Esperanto, is a monogram of a cursive capital "S", from whose tail emerges an "m".[7] The currency sign is often typeset as the separate letters Sm.[8]
In Unicode, the character is assigned Template:Unichar[9] in version 5.2.[10]
Miscellaneous
- The stelo was another currency unit used by the Template:Ill from 1942 to the 1990s.
- An Esperanto version of the board game Monopoly uses play money in denominations of spesmiloj.[11]
References
- ↑ [1]. 6 November 2022
- ↑ [2]. 6 November 2022.
- ↑ [3]. 6 November 2022.
- ↑ [4]. 6 January 2022.
- ↑ [5] Script error: No such module "webarchive".. 19 January 2014.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Proposal to encode the Esperanto SPESMILO SIGN in the UCS Script error: No such module "webarchive"., by Michael Everson
- ↑ Esperanto and the Dream of a World Currency Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Proposed New Characters – Pipeline Table
- ↑ Andrew West, BabelStone: What's new in Unicode 5.2? Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Monopolo
External links
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- "Streboj al internacia mono" Template:In lang
- Images of Stelo coins
- ACBN Article about Esperanto coins
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