Capto Iugulum Background Thread

The UPRA dollar is divided into 100 cents.

Coin denominations come in 1-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 25-, and 50-cent pieces, reasonably close to the mathematically optimal currency divisions.
 
South Africa would adopte the pound as their own currency so long as London is willing.

Our local currency is called the South African pound, consisting of 20 shillings, each consisting of 10 pence. Monetary policy ensures that the South African pound is fixed in value to the britsh pound.
 
No one using crazy subdivisions?

The Columbian Dollar has a 15 cent coin. :3 (am I OOC here? who knows.)
 
The United States would use the United States Dollar, which is divided into one-hundred cents.

We have 1-cent, 5-cent, 10-cent, 20-cent, 25-cent, 50-cent, 1-dollar, and 2-dollar coins.

We have 1-dollar, 2-dollar, 5-dollar, 10-dollar, 20-dollar, 25-dollar, 100-dollar, and 500-dollar, 1000-dollar banknotes.

20-cent and 2-dollar coins are somewhat rare, as are 25-dollar banknotes. Only the wealthy have seen 100-, 500-, and 1000-dollar banknotes, they are mostly used within the government and financial industry, although 100-dollar banknotes are occasionally circulated and used for large purchases.
 
The Islamic Kingdom of Persia proudly uses the Toman, which is subdivided into 10 rials, which have 1 Rial, 2 Rial, 5 Rial and 8 Rial coins. There are 1 Toman, 2 Toman, 5 Toman, 10 Toman, 25 Toman and 50 Toman bills.
OOC: The Toman is roughly equivalent to 5 dollars.
 
The Dutch Guilder (Gulden in Dutch)

Coins -

1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents, 1 guilder, 2 1/2 guilder
 
Kongo uses the kejsarkrona (plural kejsarkronor) as its currency, which is informally known as the krona (plural kronor). It is the same currency used before the Revolution, and continues to be circulated in Afrika by the Skandinavisk Riksbank. One krona can be broken up into 100 öre copper coins. Different krona bills feature different Emperors (the 20 kr bill features Kristian I, the 50 kr features the legendary Viking King Cnut the Great, the 100 kr bill features Harald II, the 500 kr features Kristina II, and the 1000 kr features Gustav IV Adolph).
Hmm, do you want your currency to mean 'Emperor Crown' or 'Emperor's Crown'? If the former, the name is good, if the latter, you'll want 'kejsarenskrona/kejsarenskronor'.

I have no objection to the kejsarkrona, though I'm dubious anyone but the most insistent monarchist would put Gustav IV Adolph on currency. By the end of his reign he was regarded as a senile, reactionary monarch whose anti-Catholic obsessions had nearly brought Sweden to ruin.

The Workers' Commonwealth uses the republikdaler, which is divided into various units featuring the cog and wheat stalk emblem of the Revolution, a portrait of First Proletarian Mannerheim and sometimes a portrait of Revolutionary figures like the poet and pamphleteer Ibsen or the head of the Steelworkers' League, Andersson Lundeberg.
Well, if Scandinavia in the Kongo has been defined by anything as of late, it would be 'insistent monarchy'. ;)

Vinland has made use of the Vinlandic Krona (in Vinlandic Swedish, it is called Vinlandskrona), commonly refered to simply as the 'krona' (plural kronor) since the early 1870s. Prior to this, it made use of the Scandinavian Kejsarenskrona. The transition took place over several decades, during which the krona was tied to the value of Scandinavia's currency. Imperial coins remained accepted means of exchange until the 1890s, when the Riksdag voted to detach its currency during the economic fluctuations at the very end of Kristina II's reign.

The krona is composed of 100 öre, and coins exist for 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 öre. Coins also exist for 1, 2, 5 and 10 kronor, with bills existing for 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 kronor. A price of 1.25 kronor was traditionally written as 1kr 25ö, but in recent years it has been more common to omit the ö and simply write 1.25kr.

Every coin's obverse face contains the profile of the reigning Monarch, and the year of minting. Thusfar, coins minted between 1872 and 1895 contain the image of Kristina II, coins minted between 1895 and 1899 contain the image of Konrad I, while coins minted since 1899 contain the image of Ingvar I.

Coin|Metal|Reverse Face
1ö|Bronze|1 ÖRE
2ö|Bronze|2 ÖRE
5ö|Bronze|Beaver (since 1902)/5 ÖRE (before 1902)
10ö|Silver|Johansborg Lighthouse
25ö|Silver|Single Crown
50ö|Silver|Shield
1kr|Gold|Triple Crown and Golden Sword
2kr|Gold|Galleon
5kr|Gold|Train in Mountains
10kr|Gold|Elk

Bill|Obverse Face|Reverse Face
20kr|Leif Eriksson (Discoverer of Vinland)|Vikings in a Longboat Crossing the Atlantic
50kr|Kristina II|Riksdagshuset (House of the Vinlandic Riksdag)
100kr|Saint Bridget (Patron Saint of Vinland)|Charging Cavalry in the Västermark
500kr|Clas Fleming (Founder of New Sweden)|Train Crossing the Western Mountains
1000kr|Gustav Vasa|Storvit (Tallest Mountain in North America
 
Colombia isn't as exotic as some of you. They just have the Colombian peso.
 
Hmm, do you want your currency to mean 'Emperor Crown' or 'Emperor's Crown'? If the former, the name is good, if the latter, you'll want 'kejsarenskrona/kejsarenskronor'.

Thanks for the catch, Google Translate can't be trusted
 
Well, it can be trusted a good deal if you know how to use it right, and if you've figured out the things it regularly screws up (like, for example, translating 'The Byström Agreement' to Swedish produces 'Den Byström Avtalet', when proper Swedish would drop the article and agglutinate it to 'Byströmavtalet'). Pretty much all the Swedish I've learned for Vinland has been taught by Google Translate and Swedish Wikipedia (plus some advice from a helpful Norwegian, my exceedingly sketchy grasp of Icelandic and a few intro language sites, I guess). :p
 
OOC: Not sure about other countries, but the US did mint $2.50, 5, 10, and 20 gold coins until the Great Depression.
 
OOC: Not sure about other countries, but the US did mint $2.50, 5, 10, and 20 gold coins until the Great Depression.
Considering recent history, the US Government is not minting a lot of coinage like this and furthermore the US Dollar is a fiat currency.

I also added more information to my above post.
 
The Japanese Empire uses the Yen ¥. This was adapted and a modified form of the Spanish currency (similar to our timeline). Since Japan was able to modernize more quickly than OTL, Japan has a a longer time to work with a stabilized currency. As such there are three denomination sizes: The Yen, the Sen, and the Rin. There are 100 Sen in 1 Yen, and 1000 Rin, in 1 Yen. Similar to Japan OTL, The Japanese empire runs on a bimetallic system. As such, Japanese Empire is rather restrictive on the movement of large amounts of Gold and Silver in and out of the country.

Coins (YEN) ¥1, ¥2, ¥5, ¥10, ¥20
Coins (SEN) ¥0.010, ¥0.020 ¥0.100 ¥0.500
Coins (RIN) ¥0.001, ¥0.002

Paper Notes exist for Yen and ¥0.100 ¥0.500 denominations of SEN
 
Expanded on my post about Danish currency previously, because hey, everybody else was doing lots of proper stuff and I felt my one sentence post was inadequate :p
 
The usefulness of the definition I cited is that it allows us to easily identify movements which are fascist - from Francoist Spain to Fascismo - and separate them from movements that aren't quite fascist - such as Nazism and Hungarism. There's crossover, to be sure, but the differences, I think, are what's really important.

To bring the discussion here as per EQ's insinuation. I would reply to this by firstly (with regards to your statement regarding the utility of your definition) state that utility is not the definition of whether something is good. It could well allow for easy location of fascistic ideologies, but it is not so good in defining what fascism itself, at its core, really is. As to your actual statement regarding fascism. I would actually say that Francoism, from my studies, is not really hard and fast fascist as you say, and rather was some sort of strange hybrid of old-style autocratic-conservatism with some fascist trappings incorporated (and a fascist wing of the movement on the side) to keep the popular ball rolling and ensure support for the system from those who would otherwise not support a purely aristocratic movement. Ergo I suppose you could call it Spanish conservatism with fascist characteristics.

Nazism on the other hand I would argue is clearly fascist (if we use fascism as a general term for the family of ideological movements we are describing) at its root core as a movement, although it of course as a uniqe phenomenon was rather discombobulated as an ideology with many contradictions (such as being agrarianist, but promoting industrialisation and militarisation as the route to obtaining the nice agrarian eastern european lands for the health of the volk that this agrarian dogma required) and hypocrisies (which you've mentioned) which one can partly attribute to the rivalries within the nazi party, hitlers own personal thought processes, and indeed even pure pragmatism (nazism came to power in coalition with old prussian conservatives/militarists and required their support for quite a while, not to mention they had common cause against the bolsheviks whom the nazi's saw as "the great adversary" which made marginalising the capitalist class politically suboptimal for their purposes)
 
Another reason I directed you all here is because listed on the front page is my bibliography for this NES. Check out Modern Tyrants. It's, in my opinion, the absolute authority on the development and agendas of each dictator of the 20th century.
 
tsk tsk, no one work is the absolute authority on any topic in history. Partly because the world of history is in a perpetual state of argument. That said Im sure its a good, well-researched and reasonable work well worth reading.
 
Spain is a fertile ground for fascist like ideology.
Think about it

One nation once a great empire but now a shadow of it´s former self.
A savior rises, he offers to the worker a ,,Third way,,.
A way that is not greedy capitalism or godless proletarianism.
A way that will lead spain to greatness.
 
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