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A sampler in the Guildhall Museum of Rochester illustrates the conversion between pence and shillings and shillings and pounds. Old till in Ireland, with "shortcut" keys in various £sd denominations (lower numbers) and their "new pence" equivalent (upper numbers) Toy coin, which teaches children the value of a shilling
Fiume krone: 1919–1920 Replaced by Italian Lira Hungary: Hungarian korona: 1919–1926 Abandoned due to inflation. Replaced by Hungarian pengő. Liechtenstein: Liechtenstein krone: 1898–1921 Replaced by Liechtenstein franc Slovakia: Slovak koruna: 1939–1945; 1993–2008 Replaced by euro. Kingdom of Yugoslavia: Yugoslav krone: 1918–1920
The coin's origins lie in the English silver crown, one of many silver coins that appeared in various countries from the 16th century onwards (most famously the Spanish piece of eight), all of similar size and weight (approx 38mm diameter, 25g fine silver) and thus interchangeable in international trade.
The latter's conversion to 4.50 German gold marks (hence, 1 krone = 1.125 marks) established the gold parity of the krone: one gram of fine gold worth 2.79 marks was equivalent to 2.48 krone (or 0.4032 g gold per krone). [2] The British pound (the "world currency" of the time) was equal to 18.16 kroner, [3] and the franc of France and the Latin ...
A British gold sovereign with a face value of £1. Prior to decimalisation on 15 February 1971, £1 was made up of 240 pence.. A non-decimal currency is a currency that has sub-units that are a non-decimal fraction of the main unit, i.e. the number of sub-units in a main unit is not a power of 10.
Several different currency systems have been used by Denmark from the 16th to 19th centuries. The krone (lit. "crown") first emerged in 1513 as a unit of account worth 8 marks. The more generally used currency system until 1813, however, was the Danish rigsdaler worth 1 1 ⁄ 2 krone (or schlecht daler), 6 marks, or 96 skilling. [3] [4] [5]
In 1933 the krone was pegged to the pound sterling at 1 pound = 19.9 kroner, and in 1939 the krone was pegged to the U.S. dollar at $1 = 4.4 kroner. [ 4 ] During the German occupation (1940–1945) in the Second World War , the krone was initially pegged to the Reichsmark at a rate of 1 krone = 0.6 Reichsmark, later reduced to 0.57.
From October 1992, the only coin in use in Sweden with a value below 1 kronor was the 50 öre coin. [2] On 18 December 2008, the Swedish Riksbank announced a recommendation to the Swedish government to phase out the final öre coin by 2010. [3] The coin ceased to be minted on 25 March 2009 [4] and ceased to be legal tender after 30 September 2010.