Spesmilo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Spesmilo (approximate English pronunciation: spehssmeeloh) is an obsolete decimal international currency, proposed in 1907 by René de Saussure and used before the First World War by a few British and Swiss banks, primarily the Ĉekbanko esperantista.

The spesmilo was equivalent to one thousand spesoj, and worth 0.733 grams of gold, which at the time was two United States dollars, one Russian ruble, or 2½ Swiss francs.

The basic unit, the speso, was purposely made very small to avoid fractions.

[edit] Spesmilsigno

The Sm symbol is a monogram of a cursive capital "S", from the tail of which emerges an "m". Because of the location of the "m", the symbol can be easily misread as mS.

The monogram has no Unicode support and is usually typeset as the separate letters Sm. The typeface is normally bold italic.

[edit] See also

• The stelo was another currency unit used by the Universala Ligo from 1942 to the 1990s.

[edit] External links

• "Streboj al internacia mono" (Esperanto)
• Images of Stelo coins