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  2. Australian dollar - Wikipedia

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    Since Australia was still part of the fixed-exchange sterling area, the exchange rate was fixed to the pound sterling at a rate of A$1 = 8s sterling (or £1 stg = A$2.50, and in turn £1 stg = US$2.80). In 1967, Australia effectively left the sterling area when the pound sterling was devalued against the US dollar from US$2.80 to US$2.40, but ...

  3. Banknotes of the Australian dollar - Wikipedia

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    The $1 (10/-), $2 (£1), $10 (£5), and $20 (£10) had exact exchange rates with pounds and were a similar colour to the notes they replaced, but the $5 (worth £2 10s) did not, and was not introduced until May 1967 when the public had become more familiar with decimal currency.

  4. List of circulating currencies - Wikipedia

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    United States dollar $ USD Centavo: 100 Ecuador: United States dollar $ USD Centavo: 100 Egypt: Egyptian pound: LE EGP Piastre [B] 100 El Salvador: United States dollar $ USD Cent: 100 Bitcoin [5] ₿ (none) Satoshi: 100000000 Equatorial Guinea: Central African CFA franc: F.CFA XAF Centime: 100 Eritrea: Eritrean nakfa: Nkf ERN Cent: 100 Estonia ...

  5. History of Australian currency - Wikipedia

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    When Australia was part of the fixed-exchange sterling area, the exchange rate of the Australian dollar was fixed to the pound sterling at a rate of A$1 = 8 U.K. shillings (A$2.50 = UK£1). In 1967, Australia effectively left the sterling area, when the pound sterling was devalued against the US dollar and the Australian dollar did not follow.

  6. Counterfeit money - Wikipedia

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    Mike DeBardeleben, a convicted kidnapper, rapist, and suspected serial killer, was sent to prison for counterfeiting the $20 bill. Alves dos Reis, who by the end of 1925 had managed to introduce escudo banknotes worth £1,007,963 at 1925 exchange rates into the Portuguese economy, which was equivalent to 0.88% of Portugal's nominal GDP at the time.

  7. Australian pound - Wikipedia

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    In 1949, when the United Kingdom devalued sterling against the US dollar, Australian Prime Minister and Treasurer Ben Chifley followed suit so the Australian pound would not become over-valued in sterling zone countries with which Australia did most of its external trade at the time. As one pound sterling went from US$4.03 to US$2.80, the ...

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    During Veeva's recent Investor Day, held in November, management pointed out that the life sciences industry (comprising biopharmaceutical companies and medical technology businesses) is a $2 ...

  9. Australian twenty-dollar note - Wikipedia

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    As of June 2017, 164 million $20 banknotes were in circulation, 11% of the total notes in circulation; worth $3,286 million, or 4% of the total value for all denominations. [ 3 ] Since the start of issuance there have been 14 signature combinations, of which the 1967 issue is of the greatest value, issued for one year only; and the 1989 Phillip ...