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December 22

Process of "resetting" a currency's value

What is it called when the face value of currency is "recalibrated" to make up for devaluation? For example if the lowest cash denomination is 1000 "Wizzos" so the government issues the "New Wizzo" where the value has had "000" chopped off so that 1 New Wizzo = 1000 "old" Wizzo. If I knew the name of this process I'd probably find the article about it because WHAAOE. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:46, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redenomination. DuncanHill (talk) 08:11, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill You're a scholar and a gentleman, thanks. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:25, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder how long I'd have to live to see nu dollars. Or at least Scandinavian, Japanese or even Korean purchasing powers. When 999 cent stores and 10 dollar stores become the lowest level it'll feel like the future. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:32, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you are referring to US dollars. The Zimbabwean dollar was redenominated three times between 2006 and 2009. Inflation was so bad that the fourth Zimbabwean dollar was worth 10²⁵ original dollars. CodeTalker (talk) 07:51, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source for text of USAMGIK "Ordinances"

I'd like to check this against a known source:- https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=USAMGIK_Ordinance_66

However, having tried IA, Hathi, and Google Books , I'm not finding anything.

Does anyone here know of an online digitised source for the text of documents like this? ( They must have been printed at some point obviously.) 88.97.96.89 (talk) 11:40, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here (or so). Archive.history.go.kr prints Hangul; for lack of time I'm not able to help it more at the moment ( but they have the ordinances in English available some way ) --Askedonty (talk) 14:49, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]