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A currency is a unit of money? (or monetary unit). Typically, each country has given monopoly to a single currency, controlled by a governmental central bank, although exceptions from this rule exist. Several countries can use the same name, each for their own currency (e.g. Candian dollars and US dollars).

Each currency typically has one fraction currency, valued at 1/100 of the main currency: 100 cent?s = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc. These fractions are not listed below.

To find out which currency is used in a particular country, start at the countries of the world.

Currency names of the world in alphabetic order by currency name:

International three letter currency codes are, in alphabetic order by code:


Wouldn't it be better if the currency codes appeared in parentheses after each country name in the first table? --Pinkunicorn
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