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French denier
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The denier was a French coin created by Charlemagne. It was introduced together with an accounting system in which twelve deniers equaled one sou and twenty sous equalled one livre. This system and the denier itself served as the model for many of Europe's currencies, including the British pound, Italian lira, Spanish dinero and the Portuguese dinheiro.
The British equivalent of the denier was the penny, 240 of which (prior to decimalisation) made up one British pound or 20 shillings. The symbol for both the old denier and, until recently, the penny used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere was "d".
The name denier was derived from the name of the Roman coin the denarius.
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| Circulating | Algerian dinar (دينار) · Bahraini dinar (دينار) · Iraqi dinar (دينار) · Jordanian dinar (دينار) · Kelantanese dinar (unofficial) · Kuwaiti dinar (دينار) · Libyan dinar (دينار) · Macedonian denar (денар) · Serbian dinar (динар) · Tunisian dinar (دينار) |
| Obsolete | Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar · Croatian dinar · French denier · Krajina dinar (динар) · Portuguese dinheiro · Republika Srpska dinar (динар) · South Yemeni dinar (دينار) · Spanish dinero · Sudanese dinar (دينار) · Yugoslav dinar (динар) |
| As subunit | Iranian qiran (قران) · Iranian rial (ریال) |
| See also | Andorran diner (commemorative) · denarius · E-dinar · Islamic gold dinar · Swiss dinar (used in Iraq) |
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