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Australian dollar $ AUD Cent: 100 Nepal: Nepalese rupee: रु NPR Paisa: 100 Indian rupee ₹ INR Paisa: 100 Netherlands [F] Euro € EUR Cent: 100 New Caledonia: CFP franc ₣ XPF Centime: 100 New Zealand: New Zealand dollar $ NZD Cent: 100 Nicaragua: Nicaraguan córdoba: C$ NIO Centavo: 100 Niger: West African CFA franc: F.CFA XOF Centime ...
The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD; also abbreviated A$ or sometimes AU$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; [2] [3] and also referred to as the dollar or Aussie dollar) is the official currency and legal tender of Australia, including all of its external territories, and three independent sovereign Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu.
The Canadian dollar has not seen interference by the Canadian national bank with its price since 1988. The US dollar also sees very little change of its foreign reserves. By contrast, Japan and the UK central banks intervene to a greater extent, and India has medium-range intervention by its national bank, the Reserve Bank of India. [citation ...
This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...
There is a market convention that rules the notation used to communicate the fixed and variable currencies in a quotation. For example, in a conversion from EUR to AUD, EUR is the fixed currency, AUD is the variable currency and the exchange rate indicates how many Australian dollars would be paid or received for 1 euro.
Here, EUR is the base currency and USD is the quote currency (counter currency). This means that 1 Euro can be exchangeable to 1.25 US Dollars. The most traded currency pairs in the world are called the Majors. They involve the currencies euro, US dollar, Japanese yen, pound sterling, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, and the Swiss franc.
A currency [a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [1] [2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [3]