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  2. Euro banknotes - Wikipedia

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    The euro's creation had been a goal of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors since the 1960s. [2] The Maastricht Treaty entered into force in 1993 with the goal of creating economic and monetary union by 1999 for all EU states except the UK and Denmark (though Denmark has a policy of a fixed exchange rate with the euro). [9]

  3. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [8]

  4. Cypriot pound - Wikipedia

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    The cost of one euro in Cypriot pounds (from 1999 till 2007). The Cypriot pound was replaced by the euro on 1 January 2008. The currency entered the Exchange Rate Mechanism II on 2 May 2005 and it was limited within the band of £C 0.585274 ±15% per euro. A formal application to adopt the euro was submitted on 13 February 2007.

  5. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    The table above shows the equivalent amount of goods that, in a particular year, could be purchased with $1. The table shows that from 1774 through 2012 the U.S. dollar has lost about 97.0% of its buying power. [84]

  6. Japanese yen - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 2022 the yen/dollar rate has become increasingly weaker with each passing month. By July 2024, the price fell to upper ¥161 per $1, marking the lowest exchange rate for the yen in 37.5 years on a nominal effective exchange rate [80] and the lowest real effective exchange rate since the start of statistics by the Bank of Japan in 1970.

  7. Canadian dollar - Wikipedia

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    When the two-dollar coin was introduced in 1996, the derivative word toonie ("two loonies") became the common word for it in Canadian English slang. In French , the currency is also called le dollar ; Canadian French slang terms include piastre or piasse (the original word used in 18th-century French to translate "dollar") and huard (equivalent ...

  8. 2000s - Wikipedia

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    The euro has since become the second largest reserve currency and the second most traded currency in the world after the US$. [165] As of October 2009 [update] , with more than €790 billion in circulation, the euro was the currency with the highest combined value of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the US$.

  9. Windows-1252 - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows Windows-1252. Differences from ISO-8859-1 have the Unicode code point number below the character, based on the Unicode.org mapping of Windows-1252 with "best fit". A tooltip, generally available only when one points to the immediate right of the character, shows the Unicode code point name and the decimal Alt code .