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    L’Iran renoue avec sa monnaie impériale, le #toman
    ▻http://bfmbusiness.bfmtv.com/monde/l-iran-renoue-avec-sa-monnaie-imperiale-le-toman-1067995.html

    C’est dans les vieux pots que l’on fait les meilleures soupes. Selon l’IRNA, l’agence de presse officielle de la République d’Iran, citée par Associated Press, le président Hassan Rohani a décidé de changer à la fois le nom et la valeur de la monnaie nationale iranienne. En vigueur jusqu’en 1932, le rial va laisser la place à la devise historique du pays, le toman, dont la valeur correspondra à 10 rials d’aujourd’hui. Au taux de change officiel, 3.200 tomans équivaudraient ainsi à 1 dollar.

    Pour l’anecdote, la légende voudrait que le nom #rial provienne de l’espagnol « real » ("royal" dans la langue de Cervantes) alors que le toman aurait pour origine un terme mongol, tümen, signifiant « 10.000 », car un toman valait, au XIXe siècle, 10.000 dinars.

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      Iran currency transition likely to go smoothly
      ▻http://www.azernews.az/region/106593.html

      Financial jobs in Iran are unlikely to be influenced much in a negative way by the change of currency unit, Zeynab Rezaee, an accountant told Trend December 15.

      Iran is expecting a to experience change of currency unit as the cabinet recently introduced a bill to do so. A Trend survey suggests not much trouble will surround the transition.

      Iran’s currency the rial is officially rated at about 32,000 USD. The term rial, however, is used only in officials statements. People use toman, which is equal to 10 rials each.

      "One thing that everyone says is the change of currency will be officially announced after the current fiscal year is over, so preventing any major effort in the aftermath, Rezaee said.

      “We used to file our records in the rial, now after the unit is changed, we will only have to state the numbers in toman.”

      One of the reasons for changing the currency is to minimize the number of zeros that go onto money notes because of years of high inflation. In the past 20 years, the value of the rial has dropped five-fold. During the Khatami administration a US dollar would be exchanged for 8,000 rials. It is now exchanged for 39,000 rials.

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