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The Jordanian dinar (Arabic: دينار أردني ; code: JOD; unofficially abbreviated as JD) has been the currency of Jordan since 1950. The dinar is divided into 100 qirsh (also called piastres) or 1000 fulus. Fils are effectively obsolete; however, monetary amounts are still written to three decimal places representing fils.
Xe.com (Xe) is a Canada-based online foreign exchange tools and services company headquartered in Newmarket, Ontario.It is best known for its online currency converter application that offers exchange rate information, international money transfers, and other currency-related services via its website, mobile apps, and other online channels.
The Marteau Early 18th-Century Currency Converter A Platform of Research in Economic History. Historical Currency Conversion Page by Harold Marcuse. Focuses on converting German marks to US dollars since 1871 and inflating them to values today, but has much additional information on the history of currency exchange. Gold in US Geological Survey
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 World Economy: Historical Statistics is a landmark book by Angus Maddison. Published in 2004 by the OECD Development Centre , it studies the growth of populations and economies across the centuries: not just the world economy as it is now, but how it was in the past.
Nations in red currently use the dirham. Nations in green use a currency with a subdivision named dirham. Silver dirham of Caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz 718–719 CE Silver dirham of Yazid II minted in 721–722 CE Silver dirham of Marwan II ibn Muhammad 749–745 CE Silver dirham of As-Saffah 754–758 CE Silver dirham of Al-Hadi minted in 786–787 CE in al-Haruniya Silver dirham of Al-Mu ...
Constant-dollar accounting is an accounting model that converts nonmonetary assets and equities from historical dollars to current dollars using a general price index. This is similar to a currency conversion from old dollars to new dollars. Monetary items are not adjusted, so they gain or lose purchasing power.
The market convention is to quote most exchange rates against the USD with the US dollar as the base currency (e.g. USDJPY, USDCAD, USDCHF). The exceptions are the British pound (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), the New Zealand dollar (NZD) and the euro (EUR) where the USD is the counter currency (e.g. GBPUSD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD, EURUSD).