Word: belga
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...Respectively the belga, schilling, pen go, and tchervonetz...
King Albert of the Belgians abdicated last week as fiscal dictator of his country (TIME, July 26), a role which he has played so successfully that the Belgian franc is stabilized (TIME, Nov. 8), and a new momentary unit, the belga circulates. To signalize the definite success of his administration, King Albert's last act as "dictator," last week, was to cancel a sheaf of emergency taxes, notably the 10% tax on foreigners' hotel bills...
Belgians began suddenly last week to think in belgas. Overnight King Albert, by royal decree, proclaimed the creation of a new monetary unit, the belga, worth exactly five Belgian paper francs and exactly .209211 grams of gold...
...course, to stabilizing the Belgian paper franc at .041842 grams of gold, or (at present rates of exchange) 36 francs to the dollar. This was accomplished by floating a $100,000,000 international loan (see p. 35) with the proceeds of which the Bank of Belgium will support the belga (i.e. the paper franc in multiples of five) at fixed parity...