Currencies and countries

The World Currencies Database includes 788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or other coinage information and has received over 464393 search inquires.

Selected title: Turks and Caicos islands
Explanation: Monetary unit: Jamaican pound at par with the pound sterling. Jamaican dollar replaced the pound in 1971, 1 Jamaican dollar = 100 cents. U.S. dollar replaced the Jamaican dollar in 1975. Current Monetary unit: 1 U.S. dollar = 100 cents

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GS 13943  8.02%
SKr 12460  7.17%
Ptas 11699  6.73%
RO 10678  6.14%
FKr 7176  4.13%
CFA Franc 6937  3.99%
Euro 6887  3.96%
Mexico 6741  3.88%
Czechoslovakia 6482  3.73%
Fmk 6434  3.70%
Continental dollars 6388  3.67%
Greece 6372  3.67%
Saudi Arabia 6309  3.63%
Brazil 6155  3.54%
fen 6143  3.53%
Japan 6129  3.53%
Spain 5993  3.45%
Hungary 5892  3.39%