Currency

:For current exchange rates, see Exchange links.

Modern currencies

To find out which currency is used in a particular country, start at the countries of the world or look at the table of historical exchange rates.

Related Topics:
Countries of the world - Table of historical exchange rates

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Nowadays ISO have introduced a system, ISO 4217, using three-letter codes to define currency (as opposed to simple names or currency signs), in order to remove the confusion that there are dozens of currencies called the dollar and many called the franc. Even the pound is used in nearly a dozen different countries, all, of course, with wildly differing values. In general, the three-letter code uses the ISO 3166-1 country code for the first two letters and the first letter of the name of the currency (D for dollar, for instance) as the third letter.

Related Topics:
ISO - ISO 4217 - Currency sign - Dollar - Franc - Pound - ISO 3166-1

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The International Monetary Fund uses a variant system when referring to national currencies.

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:For exchange rates, see here.

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See Non-decimal currencies

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