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However, excluding the pegged (fixed exchange rate) currencies, there are only 130 currencies that are independent or pegged to a currency basket. Dependencies and unrecognized states are listed here only if another currency is used on their territory that is different from the one of the state that administers them or has jurisdiction over them.
Spanish dollars and U.S. dollars were also in use, and from 1841 to 1858, the exchange rate was fixed at $4 = £1 (or 400¢ = 240d). This made 25¢ equal to 15d, or 30 halfpence (trente sous). After decimalization and the withdrawal of halfpenny coins, the nickname sou began to be used for the 1¢ coin, but the idiom trente sous for 25¢ endured.
An airline ticket showing the price with ISO 4217 code "EUR" (bottom left) and not with euro currency sign " € "ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
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.
The value of the Mexican peso was devalued as the government of Mexico announced that it would abandon its policy since 1954 of an exchange rate of 12.50 pesos per one United States dollar. The change was announced by Finance Minister Mario Ramón Beteta. [154] The popular situation comedy Alice premiered on CBS for the first of nine seasons.
After pleading guilty to espionage, Thompson was sentenced to 30 years in prison and would spend more than 13 years at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania before being released on May 1, 1978, by the U.S. to East Germany as part of a prisoner exchange between the two nations.
A 2021 study by the RAND Corporation expressed concern that Greenland "could be seduced into Russia's or China's orbit" were it to attain independence from Denmark. [46] Speaking in 2025, Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard of the Danish Institute of International Studies said that the United States had legitimate security concerns in Greenland that ...