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List of all European currencies Country Present currency Currency sign ISO 4217 code Fractional unit Previous currency Albania: lek [10] L ALL qindarke: none Andorra: euro [11] € [12] EUR euro cent: none official [11] [13] Armenia: dram ֏ AMD luma: ruble Austria: euro [14] € EUR euro cent: schilling [15] Azerbaijan: manat [16] ₼ AZN ...
The franc (/ f r æ ŋ k /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money.
The euro is the result of the European Union's project for economic and monetary union that came fully into being on 1 January 2002 and it is now the currency used by the majority of the European Union's member states, with all but Denmark (which has an opt-out in the EU treaties) bound to adopt it.
The euro was established in 1999, but "for the first three years it was an invisible currency, used for accounting purposes only, e.g. in electronic payments". [2] In 2002, notes and coins began to circulate. The euro rapidly took over from the former national currencies and slowly expanded around the European Union.
The chart below provides a full summary of all applying exchange-rate regimes for EU members, since the European Monetary System with its Exchange Rate Mechanism and the related new common currency ECU was born on 13 March 1979. The euro replaced the ECU 1:1 at the exchange rate markets, on 1 January 1999.
EUR Cent: 100 France: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 French Polynesia: CFP franc ₣ XPF Centime: 100 Gabon: Central African CFA franc: F.CFA XAF Centime: 100 Gambia, The: Gambian dalasi: D GMD Butut: 100 Georgia: Georgian lari ₾ GEL Tetri: 100 Germany: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 Ghana: Ghanaian cedi ₵ GHS Pesewa: 100 Gibraltar: Gibraltar pound £ GIP ...
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Euro (28) Composite (8) Other (9) No separate legal tender (16) Ecuador El Salvador Marshall Islands Micronesia Palau Panama Timor-Leste Andorra Monaco San Marino Vatican City Kosovo Montenegro Kiribati Nauru Tuvalu; Currency board (11) Djibouti Hong Kong ; ECCU Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada