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MEXICO MAGICO
Monetary units of all nations |
By Prof. German Estrada - April 2007 |
A couple a weeks ago I was sitting and talking with some people, travelers all of them, and we were talking about the places we had traveled through, reminiscing the past, the times, the places we went to and the ones that we haven’t been able to visit, and through all of this conversation something funny came out - that was quite clear for all of us-: we could remember, fairly well, most of the cities and towns and important sights that we had seeing, but we couldn’t really remember the type of currency of all the countries we had visited. Somehow in our collective memory, that “little-unimportant thing?- had been lost and we couldn’t come up with all the answers. Having heard that I write in the PVMirror, some one suggested that I should write about this topic –currencies-, adding….”it’s fantastic that we live in paradise, but we should all still keep on top of information that adds to our culture…, and some one else added, and to our memory”. Amen.
Well, this information may be welcome by some curious people that have traveled around and maybe for some other that may do it in the future; and for those that are not interested, I beg your pardon.
MONETARY UNITS OF ALL NATIONS
Country |
Basic Unit |
Country |
Basic Unit |
Afghanistan |
afghani |
Liberia |
dollar |
Albania |
lek |
Libya |
pound |
Algeria |
dinar |
Liechtenstein |
franc |
Andorra |
franc/peseta |
Luxembourg |
franc |
Argentina |
peso |
Malagasy |
franc |
Austria |
schilling |
Malawi |
pound |
Bahrain |
dinar |
Malaysia |
dollar |
Barbados |
dollar |
Maldive Is. |
Rupee |
Belgium |
franc |
Mali |
franc |
Bhutan |
rupee |
Malta |
pound |
Australia |
dollar |
Mauritania |
franc |
Bolivia |
peso boliviano |
Mauritius |
rupee |
Botswana |
rand |
Mexico |
peso |
Brasil |
real |
Monaco |
franc |
Bulgaria |
lev |
Mongolia |
tugrik |
Burma |
kyat |
Morocco |
dirham |
Burundi |
franc |
Muscat/Oman |
rupee |
Cambodia |
riel |
Nepal |
rupee |
Camerun |
franc |
Netherlands |
guilder |
Canada |
dollar |
New Zealand |
dollar |
Central African Rep. |
franc |
Nicaragua |
cordoba |
Ceylon (Sirilanka) |
rupee |
Niger |
franc |
Chad |
franc |
Nigeria |
pound |
Chile |
escudo |
Norway |
krone |
China |
yuan |
Pakistan |
rupee |
Taiwan |
dollar |
Panama |
balboa |
Colombia |
peso |
Peru |
Sol |
Costa Rica |
colon |
Paraguay |
guarani |
Cuba |
peso |
Phillippines |
peso |
Cyprus |
pound |
Poland |
sloty |
Czechoslovakia |
koruna |
Portugal |
escudo |
Denmark |
krone |
Qatar |
riyal |
Dominican Republic |
peso |
Romania |
leu |
Ecuador |
sucre |
San Marino |
lira |
El Salvador |
colon |
Saudi Arabia |
riyal |
Ethiopia |
dollar |
Senegal |
franc |
Ecuatorial Guinea |
peseta |
Singapore |
dollar |
Finland |
markka |
Somalia |
shilling |
France |
franc |
South Africa |
rand |
Gabon |
franc |
Yemen |
dinar |
Germany |
mark |
Spain |
peseta |
Ghana |
cedi |
Sudan |
pound |
Greece |
drachma |
Swaziland |
rand |
Guatemala |
quezal |
Sweden |
krona |
Guinea |
franc |
Switzerland |
franc |
Guyana |
dollar |
Syria |
pound |
Haiti |
gourde |
Tanzania |
shilling |
Honduras |
lempira |
Thailand |
bath |
Hungary |
forint |
Togo |
franc |
Iceland |
krona |
Trinidad & Tobago |
dollar |
India |
rupee |
Tunisia |
dinar |
Indonesia |
rupiah |
Turkey |
pound |
Iran |
rial |
Uganda |
shilling |
Iraq |
dinar |
United Arab Rep. |
pound |
Ireland |
pound |
United Kingdom |
pound |
Israel |
pound |
United States |
dollar |
Italy |
lira |
Uruguay |
peso |
Ivory Coast |
franc |
Russia |
ruble |
Jamaica |
pound |
Vatican City |
lira |
Japan |
yen |
Venezuela |
bolivar |
Jordan |
dinar |
Vietnam |
dong |
Kenya |
Shilling |
Western Samoa |
dollar |
Korea (both) |
won |
Yugoeslavia |
dinar |
Kuwait |
dinar |
Zaire |
zaire |
Laos |
kip |
Zambia |
kwacha |
Lebanon |
pound |
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Lesotho |
rand |
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With many new groups of people in many nations, interested nowadays in becoming “independent”, some of these “basic units” may have changed in some new governments. You know how it’s in some countries:
Some army people (they are the ones that have the power of the guns), revolt against the old regime, make a “short” revolution, come to power, and want to start making changes almost next day…
Many times, one of the first things they do is to have a “national airline” (they need prestige), and some other, change their currency so that the bills may have their “photos” on them: hurra to the god ego!
When they come to power through a democratic electoral process, it’s more difficult to change the currency used, although, as in Mexico, someone can just take “ceros” out of the amount and with that pretend to prove that “inflation” goes down… (and as we say in México...si chucha.!)
In this case <with regard to currencies > and having proved that my memory is not what it used to be…, I had to go to the books that keep this information and see what they had…
Anything that is wrong or has changed, blame it on them...!
Prof. German Estrada
E-mail: estradanav@yahoo.com
Note: This article is re-printed every year –since 2004--for the benefit of the new readers of the PVMirror.Prof. Germán Estrada is the author of the best selling book, México Mágico: Everything You Wanted To Know About... But Nobody Told You..." available in Puerto Vallarta at The Book Shope, Libreria Guadalajara, as directly from his website.
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