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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. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, and Saint Helena pound are set at a fixed 1:1 exchange rate with the British pound by local governments. Value In 2006, the House of Commons Library published a research paper which included an index of prices for each year between 1750 and 2005, where 1974 was indexed at 100.

  4. Black Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    This remark hugely increased pressure on the pound leading to large sterling sales. [9] [13] Currency traders began a massive sell-off of pounds on Wednesday, 16 September 1992. The Exchange Rate Mechanism required the Bank of England to accept any offers to sell pounds. However, the Bank of England only accepted orders during the trading day.

  5. List of British currencies - Wikipedia

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    Saint Helenian pound (parity with pound sterling) (US$ accepted in Ascension Island) Government of Saint Helena British Indian Ocean Territory; United States dollar (de facto) [3] [4] Sterling (de jure) [5] [6] [7] US Federal Reserve System British Virgin Islands Turks and Caicos Islands; United States dollar

  6. Currency pair - Wikipedia

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    Currency quotations use the abbreviations for currencies that are prescribed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in standard ISO 4217.The major currencies and their designation in the foreign exchange market are the US dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), British pound (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), Canadian dollar (CAD), and the Swiss franc (CHF).

  7. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    Example of GNP-weighted nominal exchange rate history of a basket of 6 important currencies (US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Chinese Renminbi, Swiss Franks, Pound Sterling. Bilateral exchange rate involves a currency pair, while an effective exchange rate is a weighted average of a basket of foreign currencies, and it can be viewed as an overall ...

  8. Exchange rate history of the Indian rupee - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Reserve currency - Wikipedia

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    The British pound sterling, in particular, was poised to dislodge the Spanish dollar's hegemony as the rest of the world transitioned to the gold standard in the last quarter of the 19th century. At that point, the UK was the primary exporter of manufactured goods and services, and over 60% of world trade was invoiced in pounds sterling.