Stelo
Sign in to saveThe stelo ("star"; plural: steloj) was from 1945 to 1993 a monetary unit of Esperantists, one of whose aims was to achieve a single world currency. Attempts at an earlier currency, the speso, were cut short by the First World War. For a time the Universal League (Esperanto: Universala Ligo), part of the Esperanto movement, issued coupons and coins denominated in steloj, making attempts to link the Stelo to existing currencies on the basis of relative purchasing power in different countries.
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- 1945-00-00
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- Stelo
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17 sectionsContents
- The ''speso''
- Founding of the Universal League
- Monetary stability
- Coupons
- Minting of coinage
- Lawrence Mee's role
- Fixed value
- A new treasurer for the League
- The unofficial Stelo
- Utility of the Stelo
- Dissolution of the Universal League
- Esperanto coin 100 Steloj 2018 silver
- Esperanto coin 50 Steloj 2020 silver
- Esperanto coin 5000 Steloj 2025 platin
- Esperanto coins and stamps
- Bibliography
- References
The stelo ("star"; plural: steloj) was from 1945 to 1993 a monetary unit of Esperantists, one of whose aims was to achieve a single world currency. Attempts at an earlier currency, the speso, were cut short by the First World War. For a time the Universal League (Esperanto: Universala Ligo), part of the Esperanto movement, issued coupons and coins denominated in steloj, making attempts to link the Stelo to existing currencies on the basis of relative purchasing power in different countries.
A currency by the same name is used in some Esperanto youth meetings from 2012 to the present day. It has plastic coins in several colors.