Currencies and countries

The World Currencies Database includes 788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or other coinage information and has received over 523508 search inquires.

Selected title: franc
Explanation: An aluminum or nickel coin and Monetary unit of France equal to 100 centimes, any Monetary unit of various other nations and territories as Andorra, Belgium, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Republic), Martinique, Monaco, New Caledonia, Rwanda, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Switzerland and Tahiti equal to 100 centimes. CFA franc is the Monetary unit of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ctte d'Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast), Dahomey, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo and the former Monetary unit of Comoros, Mauritania, R?union, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Upper Volta equal to 100 centimes. A Monetary unit of Guinea, equal to 100 cauris. Fractional currency of Morocco the 100th part of the dirham. A former Monetary unit of the French Territories of Afars and Issas, Algeria, Republic of the Congo, Mali, Mayotte, Monaco, New Hebrides, Ruanda-Urundi, Rwanda, French Somaliland and Vanuatu equal to 100 centimes

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Continental dollars 7035  3.67%
Brazil 6960  3.63%
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Spain 6621  3.45%
Hungary 6565  3.42%