Birr (currency)
The Birr is the unit of currency in Ethiopia. It was first called the Ethiopian dollar and was introduced in 1945, and then renamed into Birr in 1976. 1 birr equals 100 cents. As of April 1, 2005, the United States dollar was worth 8.658600 birr.
Coins in circulation
- 1 cent
- 5 cents
- 10 cents
- 25 cents
- 50 cents.
Banknotes in circulation
- 1 Birr
- 5 Birr
- 10 Birr
- 50 Birr
- 100 Birr
The first national currency of Ethiopia was the Talari, or "Menelik talers", which were issued since 1894. In 1934 the occupying Italian forces caused Italian lire to be Ethiopian legal tender until the end of WW2.
| Currencies of Africa | |
|---|---|
| North | Algerian dinar | Egyptian pound | Libyan dinar | Mauritanian Ouguiya | Moroccan Dirham | Sudanese dinar | Tunisian dinar |
| Central | Burundi franc | Central African CFA franc | Congolese franc | Angolan Kwanza | Rwandan franc |
| West | Cape Verde Escudo | Gambian Dalasi | Ghanaian Cedi | Guinean franc | Liberian dollar | Nigerian Naira | São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra | Sierra Leonean Leone | West African CFA franc |
| East | Comorian franc | Djiboutian franc | Eritrean Nakfa | Ethiopian Birr | Kenyan shilling | Seychelles Rupee | Somali shilling | Tanzanian shilling | Ugandan shilling |
| South | Botswana Pula | Lesotho Loti | Malawian kwacha | Malagasy ariary | Mauritian Rupee | Mozambique Metical | Namibian dollar | South African Rand | Swaziland Lilangeni | Zambian Kwacha | Zimbabwe dollar | (Saint Helenian pound)
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