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The CFP franc was created in December 1945, together with the CFA franc, used in Africa, because of the weakness of the French franc immediately after the Second World War. When France ratified the Bretton Woods Agreement in December 1945, the French franc was devalued in order to set a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar .
The 500 and 5000 franc notes have had the state title since their introductions. The 100 franc notes were replaced by coins in 1976. In 1985, 10,000 franc notes common to all the French Pacific Territories were introduced. These were followed, between 1992 and 1996, by 500, 1000 and 5000 franc notes for all of the French Pacific Territories.
The CFP franc was formerly linked at the exact official rate of 0.055 French francs to one Pacifique franc. When France switched its currency to the euro in 1999 this static link remained true, so that the rate is now about 119.26 Pacifique franc to one euro (1 euro being exactly 6.55957 French francs). In 2016 the exchange rate was 110.2 CFP ...
In 1949, the CFP franc's relationship to the French franc stabilized at 5.5 French francs = 1 CFP franc. From 1959, the exchange rate to the Australian pound was almost exactly 200 francs = 1 pound. This rate became 100 francs = 1 Australian dollar in 1966 when the dollar was introduced. The Australian dollar circulated alongside the local ...
USD Cent: 100 British Virgin Islands: United States dollar $ USD Cent: 100 Brunei: Brunei dollar $ BND Sen: 100 Singapore dollar $ SGD Cent: 100 Bulgaria: Bulgarian lev: lv. BGN Stotinka: 100 Burkina Faso: West African CFA franc: F.CFA XOF Centime: 100 Burundi: Burundian franc: FBu BIF Centime: 100 Cambodia: Cambodian riel ៛ KHR Sen: 100 ...
The 500 and 5000 franc notes have had the state title since their introductions. The 100 franc notes were replaced by coins in 1976. In 1985, 10,000 franc notes common to all the French Pacific Territories were introduced. Between 1992 and 1996, the remaining 500, 1000 and 5000 franc denominations were replaced with a similarly common design.
Fiji Dollar: Reserve Bank of Fiji French Polynesia: Pacific Franc: Institut d'émission d'Outre-Mer: Pegged to Euro Guam: US Dollar: Federal Reserve: US territory Hawaii: US Dollar: Federal Reserve: US state Kiribati: Australian Dollar: Reserve Bank of Australia: Dollarized Marshall Islands: US Dollar: Federal Reserve: Dollarized FS Micronesia ...
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 ...