List of circulating currencies
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This list of circulating currencies contains the 194 current official or de facto currencies of the 192 United Nations member states, one UN observer state, three partially recognized sovereign states, six unrecognized countries, and 33 dependencies. All dependencies on the table below will be italicized. Partially or wholly unrecognized countries are in bold. All dependencies listed here use a currency other than that of the sovereign state that they belong to.
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- A This currency is not used in day to day commerce and instead serves as commemorative banknotes and/or coinage.
- B This currency is being phased out with a revalued version or another currency, but is still legal tender.
- C British banknotes are issued by the Bank of England and by banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Laws on legal tender vary between various jurisdictions.[4]
- D One cent equals ten mills (also spelled “mil” and “mille”).[5]
- E One jiao equals ten fen.
- F One piastre equals ten millimes.
- G One ho equals ten cents
- H One sen equals ten rin.
- I One piastre equals ten fils and one dirham equals 10 piastres.
- J Rappen is German; in French it is centime; in Italian it is centesimo.
- K One hundred paʻanga equal one hau.
- L One hào equals ten xu.
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- ^ a b ISO 4217 Currency names and code elements. International Organization for Standardization (2006-11-21). Retrieved on 2006-12-05.
- ^ Antweiler, Werner (2006). Currencies of the World. University of British Columbia. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.
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- ^ The Coinage Act of 1792. Retrieved on 2006-12-05.