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LIRA

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIRA  , the

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Italian name (
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Lat.
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libra,
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pound) for a
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silver
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coin, the Italian unit of value in the Latin Monetary
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Union, corresponding to the
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French, Swiss and Belgian
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franc (q.v.), and the drachma of
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Greece, &c . The name is sometimes used of the
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Turkish pound,
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medjidie .

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