Currencies and countries

The World Currencies Database includes 788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or other coinage information and has received over 359908 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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NUr$ 13586 10.06%
NUr$ 13586 10.06%
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SKr 10277 7.61%
Ptas 9164 6.78%
RO 8878 6.57%
Euro 5298 3.92%
FKr 5228 3.87%
CFA Franc 5162 3.82%
Mexico 5070 3.75%
Czechoslovakia 4924 3.65%
Fmk 4829 3.58%
Continental dollars 4777 3.54%
Saudi Arabia 4742 3.51%
Greece 4729 3.50%
Japan 4612 3.41%
fen 4589 3.40%
Brazil 4520 3.35%
Spain 4505 3.34%
Hungary 4427 3.28%