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<p>[QUOTE="furryfrog02, post: 8145446, member: 41219"]Interesting. </p><p>From wiki:</p><p>The <b>ngultrum</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="nofollow">/əŋˈɡʌltrəm/</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_language" rel="nofollow">Dzongkha</a>: དངུལ་ཀྲམ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA" rel="nofollow">[ŋýˈʈúm]</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol" rel="nofollow">symbol</a>: <b>Nu.</b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" rel="nofollow">code</a>: <b>BTN</b>) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency" rel="nofollow">currency</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan" rel="nofollow">Kingdom of Bhutan</a>. It is subdivided into 100 chhertum (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_language" rel="nofollow">Dzongkha</a>: ཕྱེད་ཏམ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA" rel="nofollow">[pt͡ɕʰɛ́ˈtám]</a>, spelled as <i>chetrums</i> on coins until 1979). T</p><p><br /></p><p>25ch</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorje" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorje" rel="nofollow">Dorje</a> (a double diamond-thunderbolt) is a part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Bhutan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Bhutan" rel="nofollow">Coat of Arms</a> and represents the harmony between secular and religious power</p><p>Lettering: ཕྱེད་ཏམ་ཉརེ་འྔ TWENTY FIVE CHHERTUM[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="furryfrog02, post: 8145446, member: 41219"]Interesting. From wiki: The [B]ngultrum[/B] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English']/əŋˈɡʌltrəm/[/URL]; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_language']Dzongkha[/URL]: དངུལ་ཀྲམ [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA'][ŋýˈʈúm][/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol']symbol[/URL]: [B]Nu.[/B], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217']code[/URL]: [B]BTN[/B]) is the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency']currency[/URL] of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan']Kingdom of Bhutan[/URL]. It is subdivided into 100 chhertum ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha_language']Dzongkha[/URL]: ཕྱེད་ཏམ [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA'][pt͡ɕʰɛ́ˈtám][/URL], spelled as [I]chetrums[/I] on coins until 1979). T 25ch [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorje']Dorje[/URL] (a double diamond-thunderbolt) is a part of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Bhutan']Coat of Arms[/URL] and represents the harmony between secular and religious power Lettering: ཕྱེད་ཏམ་ཉརེ་འྔ TWENTY FIVE CHHERTUM[/QUOTE]
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