# Spesmilo

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{{Short description|International currency}}
{{Infobox currency
|currency_name_in_local=
|image_1=1 Spesmilo.png
|image_title_1 =1₷ coin
|symbol=₷ 
<!-- |unit=spesmilo ? -->
|plural=spesmiloj
|obsolete =yes

}}

The '''''spesmilo''''' ({{IPA|eo|spesˈmilo|pron}}, plural '''''spesmiloj''''' {{IPA|eo|spesˈmiloi̯|}}) is an obsolete [decimal](/source/decimal) international [currency](/source/currency), proposed in 1907 by [René de Saussure](/source/Ren%C3%A9_de_Saussure) and used before [World War I](/source/World_War_I) by a few [British](/source/Great_Britain) and [Swiss](/source/Switzerland) banks, primarily the [Ĉekbanko Esperantista](/source/%C4%88ekbanko_Esperantista).

The ''spesmilo'' was equivalent to one thousand ''spesoj'', and worth {{convert|0.733|g|oz}} of pure [gold](/source/gold) (0.8&nbsp;grams of 22&nbsp;[karat](/source/Carat_(purity)) gold), which at the time was about one-half [United States dollar](/source/United_States_dollar), two [shilling](/source/shilling)s (one-tenth of a [pound sterling](/source/pound_sterling)) in [Britain](/source/United_Kingdom), one [Russian ruble](/source/Russian_ruble), or {{frac|2|1|2}} [Swiss franc](/source/Swiss_franc)s.

The basic unit, the ''speso'' (from Italian ''spesa'' or German ''Spesen'';<ref>{{cite book |last=Cherpillod |first=André |year=2007 |title=Konciza Etimologia Vortaro |publisher=[Universala Esperanto-Asocio](/source/Universala_Esperanto-Asocio) |pages=432 |isbn=9789290170822 |language=Esperanto}}</ref> ''spesmilo'' is [Esperanto](/source/Esperanto) for "a thousand pennies"), was purposely made very small to avoid fractions.

==Sign==
thumb|right|upright=0.3|Spesmilo sign {{angbr|₷}}

The ''spesmilo'' sign, called ''{{lang|eo|spesmilsigno}}'' in Esperanto, is a [monogram](/source/monogram) of a [cursive](/source/cursive) [capital](/source/capital_letter) "S", from whose tail emerges an "m".<ref>[http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3390.pdf Proposal to encode the Esperanto SPESMILO SIGN in the UCS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604033643/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3390.pdf |date=2011-06-04 }}, by [Michael Everson](/source/Michael_Everson)</ref> The currency sign is often [typeset](/source/typeset) as the separate letters ''Sm''.<ref>[http://www.usns.info/pdf/Aust_Coin_&_Banknote_USNS_002_092005.pdf Esperanto and the Dream of a World Currency] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926003932/http://www.usns.info/pdf/Aust_Coin_%26_Banknote_USNS_002_092005.pdf |date=2007-09-26 }}</ref>

In [Unicode](/source/Unicode), the character is assigned {{unichar|20B7|Spesmilo sign |html=}}<ref>[https://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html Proposed New Characters – Pipeline Table<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> in version 5.2.<ref>[Andrew West](/source/Andrew_West_(linguist)), [https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/04/whats-new-in-unicode-52.html BabelStone: What's new in Unicode 5.2?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005004505/http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/04/whats-new-in-unicode-52.html |date=2009-10-05 }}</ref>

==Miscellaneous==
* The ''[stelo](/source/stelo)'' was another currency unit used by the {{ill|Universal League|eo|Universala Ligo}}  from 1942 to the 1990s.
* An Esperanto version of the board game [Monopoly](/source/Monopoly_(game)) uses play money in denominations of ''spesmiloj''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eo.wikibooks.org/wiki/Monopolo|title=Monopolo|website=Vikilibroj|lang=eo}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.eventoj.hu/arkivo/eve-050.htm "''Streboj al internacia mono''"] {{in lang|eo}}
* [http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/Esperanto.html Images of Stelo coins]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926003932/http://www.usns.info/pdf/Aust_Coin_%26_Banknote_USNS_002_092005.pdf ACBN Article about Esperanto coins]

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Category:Modern obsolete currencies
Category:Esperanto culture
Category:Currency symbols
Category:Alternative currencies
Category:Currencies introduced in 1907
Category:Currencies of Europe

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