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The standard unit of currency in the [[Agatean Empire]]. In its usual form as a pure gold coin, it can be divided into half-''rhinu'' and quarter-''rhinu'' pieces, for ease of making small purchases.

In [[Ankh-Morpork]], when the currency was exported there by [[Twoflower]], "small purchases" available to a one-''rhinu'' coin might have included two or three districts of the city with an option on the Patrician's Palace. This caused a certain amount of civic unrest which was indirectly responsible for one of the city's Great Fires. It also led to [[Rincewind]] getting a lesson in ''reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits'' (echo-gnomics) from the then [[Patrician]], which he totally failed to grasp.

While Ankh-Morpork is largely over the inadvertent destruction caused by Twoflower and a [[the Luggage|travelling chest]] full of solid gold coins, another innovation from the Counterweight Continent, first encountered by Rincewind while buying dubious foodstuffs from [[Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler|Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala]] is poised to arrive in the city. This is higher-order rhinu currency, which to Rincewind's consternation and disbelief comes in the form of pieces of paper which claim to be worth the gold weight of five and ten ''rhinus'' respectively. Rincewind believes it will never catch on. But then, we've seen that his grasp of economic theory is every bit as abysmal as his grasp of magical theory.  Ankh-Morpork's [[Ankh-Morpork Mint|cash economy]] and [[currency]] are, however, in the hands of people who '''''do''''' understand economics, and [[Moist von Lipwig|changes]] are poised to happen...

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