Saudi Riyals (SAR) Is a currency used in saudi arabia, currently (
2023) there's 7 banknotes and 7 coins, starting with banknotes, there's 5 riyals, 10 riyals, 20 riyals, 50 riyals, 100 riyals, 200 riyals, and 500 riyals, the coins used the term halalas as saudi cents, there's 2 riyals,
1 riyal, 50 halalas, 25 halalas, 10 halalas, 5 halalas, and one halala.
Fun fact: the one riyal used to be a banknote until
2016, when saudi arabia decided to make the one riyal a coin and introduced the 2 riyals, then in
2020, saudi arabia introduced the
new 5 riyals that is now tearproof and waterproof, they also introduced the 20 riyals and the 200 riyals
(for some reason, only the 5 riyals is made of
plastic, other banknotes are made of
paper)
The saudi riyal is currently worth 27 cents approx, meaning that one US dollar equals to 3,75 riyals approx.
Person
1: how much is the Big Mac?
Person 2: the Big Mac is worth 21 saudi riyals.
Person
1: i got a large
box of indomie (60 packs of noodles), how much is it?
Person 2: the total is 90 saudi riyals