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BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
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Uses or used the denomination hapa or napa?
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    MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Could you mean maybe Hapaha and Hapalua? King Kamehameha III issued the first Hawaiian coin in 1847, a copper one cent piece, Hapa Haneri. It was the size of our then current large cent.
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    BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    The coin has 5 napa 1879 on the reverse.
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    BlackhawkBlackhawk Posts: 3,898 ✭✭✭
    Ha...found it. napa is actually PARA. The coin is from Serbia
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    MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Para is also used in Egypt and Libyaimage
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    SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭✭
    That's because the root of the word is Turkish. The word para soon took the meaning of money in general, - Have you got any parades? - No, I'm broke", (-des = plural) and stayed in the poems,litterature and current languages of the countries that were conquered by the Ottoman Empire, long after the Ottomans were gone.
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    PhilipPhilip Posts: 847
    "Money" in Bulgarian is "pari", which is the plural of "para".
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