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The krona (Swedish: ⓘ; plural: kronor; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the currency of the Kingdom of Sweden.It is one of the currencies of the European Union.Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use for the krona; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value.
The Scandinavian Monetary Union replaced the riksdaler riksmynt in 1873 with a new currency, the krona. An equal valued krone/krona of the monetary union replaced the three Scandinavian currencies at the rate of 1 krone/krona = 1 ⁄ 2 Danish rigsdaler = 1 ⁄ 4 Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler riksmynt.
3 Historical use of a currency called crown. ... The symbol for crown is usually "kr". Some countries use another symbol for it like Íkr, -, Kč. ... Swedish krona ...
The Scandinavian Monetary Union was a monetary union formed by Denmark and Sweden on 5 May 1873, with Norway joining in 1875. It established a common currency unit, the krone/krona, based on the gold standard.
Another alternative -- we are a wiki, after all -- would be to use neither system of code and simply to rely on a link to the currency from the symbol to make it clear what we're talking about: $100, £100, ₪100. That would make the text flow more neatly, but it would have one major drawback: including the ISO 4217 three-letter code makes it ...
The main events in the monetary history of the Krona are: Introduction of the Krona, based on the gold standard on 5 May 1873. (1 kg of gold = 2480 Kronor) The tie to gold is abolished on 2 August 1914. The tie to gold is de facto re-established in November 1922. The tie to gold is de jure re-established on 1 April 1924
The currency sign was once a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but Apple changed the symbol at that code point to the euro sign in Mac OS 8.5.In pre-Unicode Windows character sets (Windows-1252), the generic currency sign was retained at 0xA4 and the euro sign was introduced as a new code point, at 0x80 in the little used (by Microsoft) control-code space 0x80 to 0x9F.
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