Similar Units
- The Egyptian pound was formerly divided into 1000 milliemes, and 10 millimes equals 1 piaster.
- The Tunisian dinar is divided into 1000 millimes (10 millimes is the smallest currently-minted coin)
- The national currencies which are divided into 1000 fils are the Kuwaiti dinar (5 fils is the smallest currently-minted coin), Bahraini dinar (1 fill), Iraqi dinar (25 dinars). But as with the case of the United Arab Emirates dirham and the Yemeni rial, they are divided into 100 subunits.
- The Omani rial is divided into 1000 baisa.
- The Libyan dinar is divided into 1000 dirham since 1971.
- The Japanese yen was formerly divided into 100 sen or 1000 rin. An early proposed (but not accepted) design for the 1-rin coin used "1 mill" in the Romanized text
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