Currency history
Lesotho loti
Lesotho loti: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- LSL
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Lesotho loti
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Lesotho loti
South African rand
South African pound
Pound sterling
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
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 IMF history dates the issue of the loti to January 1980. [1]
Sources and evidence
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“Lesotho loti.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000195.html