Currency history
São Tomé dobra
São Tomé dobra: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- STN
- Ancestry branch
- Roman solidus
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗São Tomé dobra
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
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São Tomé dobra
São Tomé escudo
Portuguese escudo
Portuguese real
Portuguese dinheiro–soldo–libra accounting
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
The issuer brochure describes the dobra's 1976 legal creation, first issuance in 1977, and the planned 2018 rescaling at 1, 000 old dobras per new-family dobra. [1]
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“São Tomé dobra.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000162.html