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nakfa

Currency of Eritrea

ConceptQ8142Q171503

Also known as Eritrean nakfa · Nkf

Instance of: Q8142
Country: Eritrea

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The nakfa is the currency of Eritrea and was introduced on 15 November 1997 to replace the birr at par. The currency takes its name from the Eritrean town of Nakfa, site of the first major victory of the Eritrean War of Independence. The nakfa is divided into 100 cents.

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18 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Central bank/issuer: Bank of Eritrea
Different from: Q23945140
Started: November 8, 1997
Unit symbol: Nfk
Conversion to standard unit: 0.2055(2018)
Replaces: Q206243
Named after: Q969144
Applies to jurisdiction: Eritrea

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8 identifiers linking nakfa across the web's reference databases

Freebase ID/m/05jpt9
ISO 4217 codeERN
PermID500161
QUDT dimension IDA0E0L0I0M0H0T0D1
QUDT unit IDCCY_ERN
Quora topic IDEritrean-Nakfa
WikiKids IDEritrese_nakfa
Wolfram Language unit code"EritreanNakfas"

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