History of Currency

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Changed: 3c3

Each currency typically has one fraction currency, valued at 1/100 of the main currency: 100 cent?s = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc. These fractions are not listed below.

Each currency typically has one fraction currency, valued at 1/100 of the main currency: 100 cent?s = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc. However, some currencies use a fraction of 1/10 (and a very few some other value such as 1/5 or 1/20), or do not have a minor unit currency at all. These fractions are NOT listed below.

Added: 6a7,8

Nowadays ISO have introduced a system, 'ISO 4217' using three-letter codes to define currency, in order to remove the confusion that there are dozens of currencies called the Dollar and many called the Franc. Even the Pound is used in nearly a dozen different countries, all of course, with wildly differing values.

Changed: 70c72

International three letter currency codes are formed by the ISO 3166 country code plus an additional letter. They are, in alphabetic order by code.

International three letter currency codes are formed by the ISO 3166 country code plus an additional letter as defined in ISO 4217. They are, in alphabetic order by code (Partial List).

Added: 90a93,119

Currency symbols (now obsoleted by ISO 4217):
* ¤ - Generic currency sign
* $ - dollar sign
* ¢ - cent sign
* ₥ - Mill Sign - Usa (1/10 cent)
* £ - pound sign
* ¥ - yen sign - Japan
* ৲ - rupee mark - Bengal
* ৳ - rupee sign - Bengal
* ฿ - Baht sign - Thailand
* ៛ - Riel sign - Khmer
* ₠ - Euro-Currency Sign - intended for ECU, but not widely used. Historical character, this is NOT the euro!
* € - Euro Sign - Currency sign for the European Monetary Union
* ₡ - Colon Sign Costa Rica, El Salvador
* ₢ - Cruzeiro Sign - Brazil
* ₣ - French Franc Sign - France
* ₤ - Lira Sign - Italy, Turkey
* ₦ - Naira Sign - Nigeria
* ₧ - Peseta Sign - Spain
* ₨ - Rupee Sign - India
* ₩ - Won Sign - Korea
* ₪ - New Sheqel Sign - Israel
* ₫ - Dong Sign - Vietnam
* ₭ - Kip Sign - Laos
* ₮ - Tugrik Sign - Mongolia (also transliterated as tugrug, tugric, tugrog, togrog)
* ₯ - Drachma Sign - Greece

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	Revision 27 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 9:32 am by (logged).253.64.xxx *[added more direct reference to ISO_4217]**
	Revision 26 . . (edit) December 9, 2001 8:29 am by Bryan Derksen [fixed typo ]
	Revision 25 . . (edit) December 9, 2001 8:27 am by Bryan Derksen [detableized currency symbols]
	Revision 24 . . December 9, 2001 8:23 am by Bryan Derksen [added currency symbols]
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	Revision 22 . . (edit) November 17, 2001 11:55 pm by WojPob