Currencies and countries

The World Currencies Database includes 788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or other coinage information and has received over 458968 search inquires.

Selected title: Lesotho
Explanation: Official name: Kingdom of Lesotho. Achieved independence on October 4, 1966. Monetary unit: South African rand = 100 cents. Loti at par with South African rand (1978). Loti replaced the South African rand in 1984. Current Monetary unit: 1 loti (plural maloti) (M) = 100 lisente

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Currency or countrySearchesPercentage
NUr$ 17316  10.09%
NUr$ 17316  10.09%
GS 13851  8.07%
SKr 12341  7.19%
Ptas 11597  6.76%
RO 10584  6.17%
FKr 7048  4.11%
CFA Franc 6819  3.97%
Euro 6796  3.96%
Mexico 6653  3.88%
Czechoslovakia 6378  3.72%
Fmk 6330  3.69%
Continental dollars 6275  3.66%
Greece 6259  3.65%
Saudi Arabia 6206  3.62%
Brazil 6058  3.53%
fen 6040  3.52%
Japan 6032  3.51%
Spain 5903  3.44%
Hungary 5805  3.38%