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  2. List of circulating fixed exchange rate currencies - Wikipedia

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    Fixed currency Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar: 1.79

  3. Decimal Day - Wikipedia

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    Conversion tables were provided, showing how prices in £sd rounded to the new currency: [16] this including saying 3d was equivalent to 1p though 9d was equivalent to 4p. This led to some anomalies: school meals were charged at 1s 9d a day or 8s 9d for a five-day week; these became 9p a day or 45p a week despite the conversion tables ...

  4. Fractional currency - Wikipedia

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    Postage (or postal) currency was the first of five issues of US Post Office fractional paper money printed in 5-cent, 10-cent, 25-cent, and 50-cent denominations and issued from August 21, 1862, through May 27, 1863. [16] Spinner proposed using postage stamps, affixed to Treasury paper, [17] with his signature on the bottom (see illustration ...

  5. Reichsmark - Wikipedia

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    These notes were convertible to US dollars at a rate of 10:1. Seeing an opportunity to procure foreign hard currency, the Soviet Union demanded copies of the engraving plates, ink, and associated equipment in early 1944, and on 14 April 1944 Henry Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White of the U.S. Treasury Department authorized the air transfer of ...

  6. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    For example, the purchasing power of the US dollar relative to that of the euro is the dollar price of a euro (dollars per euro) times the euro price of one unit of the market basket (euros/goods unit) divided by the dollar price of the market basket (dollars per goods unit), and hence is dimensionless. This is the exchange rate (expressed as ...

  7. List of British banknotes and coins - Wikipedia

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    Dollar (British coin) 5/-£0.25: 1804–1811, (withdrawn 1818) [6] Silver, overstruck on Spanish 8 Reales coin. Crown: 5/-£0.25: 1551–1965. Sometimes known as "a dollar" – from the 1940s when the exchange rate was four USD to the GBP. Originally in gold until 1662 and in silver from 1551. Quarter guinea: 5/3: £0.2625: 1718, 1762. Five ...

  8. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [3] The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4]

  9. Sterling area - Wikipedia

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    But while Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa all responded to the end of the gold standard by pegging their pounds to the pound sterling, Canada and Newfoundland instead pegged their dollars to the US dollar. So Canada and Newfoundland did not stand to gain by joining an exchange control bloc intended to protect the external value of ...