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$CCC$ -United Arab Emirates Dirham Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 11/23/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   large (large)

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Geocache Description:



United Arab Emirates Dirham

The dirham (Arabic: درهم‎) (sign: د.إ; code: AED) is the currency of the United Arab Emirates. The ISO 4217 code (currency abbreviation) for the United Arab Emirates dirham is AED. Unofficial abbreviations include DH or Dhs. The dirham is subdivided into 100 fils (فلس). The name Dirham derives from the Greek word Drachmae, literally meaning "handful", through Latin. Due to centuries of old trade and usage of the currency, dirham survived through the Ottoman regime. The United Arab Emirates dirham was introduced 19 May 1973. It replaced the Qatar and Dubai riyal at par. The Qatar and Dubai riyal had circulated since 1966 in all of the emirates except Abu Dhabi, where the dirham replaced the Bahraini dinar at 1 dirham = 0.1 dinar. Before 1966, all the emirates that were to form the UAE used the Gulf rupee. As in Qatar, the emirates briefly adopted the Saudi riyal during the transition from the Gulf rupee to the Qatar and Dubai riyal.



This is a two-stage Projection Multi. You'll need a device that can project a waypoint on a map with the given information:
From the description above, how many fils can the Dirham be subdivided into? That number is XXX. Take 308 divided by XXX and call that Z.ZZ.

The final stage can be found by heading Z.ZZ km at a bearing of 199° from the posted stage 1 coordinates.



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vs gurer vf n ybg bs fabj, lbh znl unir gb cnex naq jnyx n jnlf...urapr gur uvxvat nggevohgr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)