Currencies and countries

The World Currencies Database includes 788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or other coinage information and has received over 467348 search inquires.

Selected title: Western Samoa
Explanation: (See Samoa) Official name: Independent States of Western Samoa. Monetary unit: New Zealand pound (£NZ). Western Samoa pound (£WS) at par with New Zealand pound (1965). Western Samoa thaler (dollar) (later it was spelled tala) replaced the Western Samoa pound in 1968. Current Monetary unit: 1 tala (WS$ plural tala) = 100 sene

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NUr$ 17624  10.07%
NUr$ 17624  10.07%
GS 13996  8.00%
SKr 12520  7.16%
Ptas 11754  6.72%
RO 10719  6.13%
FKr 7235  4.14%
CFA Franc 6991  4.00%
Euro 6929  3.96%
Mexico 6784  3.88%
Czechoslovakia 6531  3.73%
Fmk 6497  3.71%
Continental dollars 6432  3.68%
Greece 6420  3.67%
Saudi Arabia 6348  3.63%
Brazil 6205  3.55%
fen 6189  3.54%
Japan 6184  3.53%
Spain 6032  3.45%
Hungary 5937  3.39%