Naira
The Naira is the currency of Nigeria.
1 Naira (₦) = 100 Kobo
At the moment, the currency is with the denomination :
1 Naira = Coin,
5 Naira = Note,
10 Naira = Note,
20 Naira = Note,
50 Naira = Note,
100 Naira = Note,
200 Naira = Note,
500 Naira = Note,
The 1000 Naira note is likely to be out by 2005.
Currency is said to have first developed in West Africa. The first currency known were the cowrys, a sea shell. Manilas were a more sophisticated, bronze made bracelets, that could buy a wife.
Naira is also a female name.
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| Currencies of Africa
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| North
| Algerian dinar | Egyptian pound | Libyan dinar | Mauritanian Ouguiya | Moroccan Dirham | Sudanese dinar | Tunisian dinar
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| Central
| Burundi franc | Central African CFA franc (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon)) | Congolese franc | Angolan Kwanza | Rwandan franc
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| West
| Cape Verde Escudo | Gambian Dalasi | Ghanaian Cedi | Guinean franc | Biffeche Dinar-Haut | Liberian dollar | Nigerian Naira | São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra | Sierra Leonean Leone | West African CFA franc (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo)
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| East
| Comorian franc | Djiboutian franc | Eritrean Nakfa | Ethiopian Birr | Kenyan shilling | Seychelles Rupee | Somali shilling | Tanzanian shilling | Ugandan shilling
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| South
| Botswana Pula | Euro (Réunion) | Lesotho Loti | Malawian kwacha | Malagasy ariary | Mauritian Rupee | Mozambique Metical | Namibian dollar | Saint Helenian pound | South African Rand | Swaziland Lilangeni | Zambian Kwacha | Zimbabwe dollar
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See also: Naira, Africa, Algerian dinar, Ariary, Benin, Biffeche Dinar-Haut, Birr (currency)