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Unrelated to specific coins, the name of the thaler survives in various modern currency names, in the form dollar in twenty-three currencies used in countries including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States of America, and also in the Samoan tālā and the Slovenian tolar (before adoption of the euro).
US Dollar (37) Euro (28) Composite (8) Other (9) No separate legal tender (16) Ecuador El Salvador Marshall Islands Micronesia Palau Panama Timor-Leste Andorra Monaco San Marino Vatican City Kosovo Montenegro Kiribati Nauru Tuvalu; Currency board (11) Djibouti Hong Kong ; ECCU Antigua and Barbuda Dominica
For example, the purchasing power of the US dollar relative to that of the euro is the dollar price of a euro (dollars per euro) times the euro price of one unit of the market basket (euros/goods unit) divided by the dollar price of the market basket (dollars per goods unit), and hence is dimensionless. This is the exchange rate (expressed as ...
The euro is a major global reserve currency, the second most widely held international reserve currency after the U.S. dollar. [59] Inheriting this status from the German mark , its share of international reserves has risen from 23.65% in 2002 to a peak of 27.66% in 2009 before declining due to the European debt crisis , with Russia and Eastern ...
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The euro remains underweight as a reserve currency in advanced economies while overweight in emerging and developing economies: according to the International Monetary Fund [84] the total of euro held as a reserve in the world at the end of 2008 was equal to $1.1 trillion or €850 billion, with a share of 22% of all currency reserves in ...
The Joachimsthaler of the Kingdom of Bohemia was the first thaler (dollar). Dollar is the name of more than 25 currencies.The United States dollar, named after the international currency known as the Spanish dollar, was established in 1792 and is the first so named that still survives.
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The Reichsmark ( German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌmaʁk] ⓘ ; sign : ℛ︁ℳ︁ ; abbreviation: RM ) was the currency of Germany from 1924 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, and in the American, British and French occupied zones of Germany , until 20 June 1948.