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loti

Currency of Lesotho

ConceptcurrencyQ208039

Also known as LSL · Lesotho loti

Instance of: currency
Country: Lesotho

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The loti is the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho. It is subdivided into 100 sente. It is pegged to the South African rand on a 1:1 basis through the Common Monetary Area, and both are accepted as legal tender within Lesotho. The loti was first issued in 1966, albeit as a non-circulating currency. In 1980, Lesotho issued its first coins denominated in both loti and lisente to replace the South African rand, but the rand remains legal tender.

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Central bank/issuer: Central Bank of Lesotho
Started: January 1980
Unit symbol: M
Price: 1 rand instance of: fixed exchange rate
Named after: mountain
Conversion to standard unit: 0.1886 international United States dollar(2018)
Subdivision of this unit: sente

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12 identifiers linking loti across the web's reference databases

Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/loti
Freebase ID/m/04xm1m
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDloti-ca40d5
ISO 4217 codeLSL
National Historical Museums of Sweden IDterm/CD0A6465-1A64-48DD-9FCC-D783678EDD46
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning742416
PermID500198
QUDT dimension IDA0E0L0I0M0H0T0D1
QUDT unit IDCCY_LSL
WikiKids IDLesothaanse_loti
Wolfram Language unit code"LesothoMaloti"
Yale LUX IDconcept/64c8252f-f220-495f-aa78-bf0e6a24c585

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