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The East Caribbean dollar is pegged to the United States dollar, and has been for over 35 years since 1976, [11] having previously been pegged to the pound sterling. [11] In 1965, the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority was established (coming after the British Caribbean Currency Board ), to distribute currency, but The Bahamas withdrew from ...
Currency in Colombia denotes the ingots, coins, and banknotes that have been used in Colombia since 1622. It was in that year, under a licence purchased from King Philip III of Spain, that Alonso Turrillo de Yebra established a mint at Santa Fe de Bogotá and a branch mint at Cartagena de las Indias, where gold cobs were produced as part of Colombia's first currency.
The East Caribbean dollar is pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate of 2.7:1, and is used by all of the countries and territories of the OECS other than the British Virgin Islands. In Lebanon, one dollar is equal to 15000 Lebanese pounds, and is used interchangeably with local currency as de facto legal tender. [22]
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The residents of a neighborhood in Bogota are saddened after the death of 74-year-old Gerald Gaimo, whose house caught fire early Saturday morning.. Gaimo’s wife escaped from the home on River ...
This is a placeholder while I can come up with an eloquent way of stating that there needs to be a Wikipedia-wide convention on how to indicate currencies (US dollars vs. Australian dollars, etc.) and of which symbols to use (no one seems to know what to do about the Yuan). --Dante Alighieri 01:17 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Tom Kim apologized on social media Monday after he damaged his locker room door following a playoff loss at the DP World Tour’s Genesis Championship in South Korea on Sunday.
In 2008, the Chávez government revalued the Venezuela currency by a ratio of 1:1000, thus creating a new currency known as the bolívar fuerte (Eng.: "bolivar") but kept the currency pegged to a higher rate against the dollar than the market value. Since 2003, this has created a scarcity of foreign currency, as confidence in the bolivar ...