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  2. Australian dollar - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the Australian dollar was the fifth most traded currency in world foreign exchange markets, accounting for 6.9% of the world's daily share (down from 8.6% in 2013) [64] behind the United States dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the pound sterling. The Australian dollar is popular with currency traders, because of the comparatively ...

  3. Australian pound - Wikipedia

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    The pound (sign: £, £A [1] for distinction) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar. Like other £sd currencies, it was subdivided into 20 shillings (denoted by the symbol s or /– ), each of 12 pence (denoted by the symbol d ).

  4. 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.

  5. Banknotes of the Australian dollar - Wikipedia

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    The notes of the Australian dollar were first issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia on 14 February 1966, when Australia changed to decimal currency and replaced the pound with the dollar. [1] This currency was a lot easier for calculating compared to the previous Australian pound worth 20 shillings or 240 pence.

  6. List of circulating fixed exchange rate currencies - Wikipedia

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    Fixed currency Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar: 1.79

  7. £sd - Wikipedia

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    Australian dollar: 0.5 10/– Australian pound: 1966 Bahamian dollar: 0.35 7/– Bahamian pound: 1966 New Zealand dollar: 0.5 10/– New Zealand pound: 1967 Western Samoan tala: 0.5 10/– Western Samoan pound: 1967 Tongan paʻanga: 0.5 10/– Tongan pound: 1967 Zambian kwacha: 0.5 10/– Zambian pound: 1968 Jamaican dollar: 0.5 10/– Jamaican ...

  8. Pound (currency) - Wikipedia

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    Australian pound (until 1966, replaced by the Australian dollar). The Australian pound was also used in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Nauru, New Hebrides and Papua and New Guinea. It was replaced in the New Hebrides/Vanuatu in 1981 by the Vanuatu vatu. Bahamian pound (until 1966, replaced by the Bahamian dollar)

  9. Reserve currency - Wikipedia

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    For example, it took many years after the United States overtook the United Kingdom as the world's largest economy before the dollar overtook the pound sterling as the dominant global reserve currency. [1] In 1944, when the US dollar was chosen as the world reference currency at Bretton Woods, it was only the second currency in global reserves. [1]