Currencies and countries

The World Currencies Database includes 788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or other coinage information and has received over 521031 search inquires.

Selected title: Tanzania
Explanation: Official name: Republic of Tanzania. Monetary unit: East African shilling (£) = 100 cents. Tanzanian shilling replaced the East African shilling (£) on June 14, 1966. Current Monetary unit: 1 Tanzanian shilling (TSh) = 100 cents

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Ptas 12374  6.49%
RO 11426  5.99%
FKr 8266  4.34%
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Mexico 7356  3.86%
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Continental dollars 6990  3.67%
Brazil 6911  3.63%
Japan 6766  3.55%
fen 6724  3.53%
Spain 6580  3.45%
Hungary 6519  3.42%