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The South African rand is legal tender in the Common Monetary Area member states of Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini, with these three countries also having national currencies: (the dollar, the loti and the lilangeni respectively) pegged with the rand at parity and still widely accepted as substitutes.
The "Canadian Blue" methamphetamine produced in Ontario sold for $8,000 Canadian dollars per pound, but in the United States it sold for $12,000 U.S. dollars per pound. [27] The drug network for selling the PCP went from northern Ontario down to Florida, and the police estimated Guindon just by himself was making at least $60 million per month ...
This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, [16] the Australian Nugget in 1987, [16] [17] the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, [18] [19] the American Gold Eagle in 1986, [16] [18] and the British Britannia coin in 1987.
The cost of one United States dollar in Canadian dollars from 1990 The cost of one Euro in Canadian dollars from 1999 Since 76.7% of Canada's exports go to the U.S., and 53.3% of imports into Canada come from the U.S., [ 34 ] Canadians are interested in the value of their currency mainly against the U.S. dollar.
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
The whale would have had to cross multiple oceans and travel more than 8,000 miles from the Colombian Pacific to get there, and experts believe it was trying to find a mate or food. The whale's ...
A former Allianz fund manager was spared prison time on Friday over his role in a meltdown of private investment funds sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic that caused an estimated $7 billion of ...
The three smallest coins are known by the traditional names "nickel" (5¢), "dime" (10¢), and "quarter" (25¢), and the one-dollar and two-dollar coins are called the "loonie" (for the loon depiction on the reverse) and the "toonie" (a portmanteau of "two" and "loonie") respectively. The production of the Canadian 1-cent piece (known as the ...