Spesmilo

Quick meaning: Spesmilo is a noun meaning (numismatics) An obsolete unit of Esperanto international currency (symbol ⟨₷⟩ or ⟨Sm⟩) with the value of one thousand spesoj.

Meaning

(numismatics) An obsolete unit of Esperanto international currency (symbol ⟨₷⟩ or ⟨Sm⟩) with the value of one thousand spesoj.

Example Sentences

We shall be delighted to relieve you of a pair of spesmiloj, alie a dollar, and will use your money to create more Esperanto enthusiasm.

They agree to repay the cost, together with the postage, of any article of consequence bought on their behalf,—cost to be stated in spesmiloj (half dollars).

To convert spesmiloj and spesoj readily into pence, divide by 4, disregarding the third figure to the right of the comma or decimal point (which figure is not always written).

As thus used by Esperantists before the First World War, the spesmilo equalled 50 American cents, 1 Russian rouble, or 2½ Swiss francs. Coins worth 1 and 2 spesmiloj were struck for Saussure in 1912.

Word Forms

• spesmiloj
• spesmilos

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include milesima, metical, matical, millreis, milreis, millree.

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