gopik

English

Noun

gopik (plural gopiks or gopik)

1. Alternative form of qapik
   • 1995, Fielding's ‘The World's Most Dangerous Places’, page 170:

     While the local currency is the manat, the Russian ruble is in circulation and prices are often confusingly quoted in manats and rubles. […] The currency is the manat with a hundred gopik […]

   • 1997, Islam and the Modern Age, volume 28, page 330:

     One Azerbaijani manat is equivalent to 100 gopiks. The exchange rate prevailing in September 1995 was $1 equivalent to 4,395 manats.

   • 2000, Worldmark Yearbook, volume 1, page 193:

     The manat, consisting of 100 gopik, was introduced in 1992 and remains tied to the Russian ruble with widely fluctuating exchange rates.

   • 2002, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, →ISBN, page 25:

     One manat equals 100 gopiks; however, there are no gopiks in circulation due to inflation in the early 1990s.