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The livre parisis ([livʁ paʁizi], Paris pound), also known as the Paris or Parisian livre, was a medieval French coin and unit of account originally notionally equivalent to a French pound of silver. [1] It was the chief currency of the Capetian dynasty before being generally replaced by the livre tournois ("Tours pound") under Philip II in ...
Cypriot lira/pound 1879–2007; merged into the euro, 2008; French livre 781–1794; became the French franc; Israeli lira/pound 1948–1980; replaced by the old shekel in 1980. Italian lira 1861–2002; merged into the euro, 1999 (notes and coins from 2002) Italian East African lira 1938–1941; supplanted by the East African shilling
The name euro was officially adopted on 16 December 1995 in Madrid. [16] The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743 at the time). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making ...
The livre was established by Charlemagne as a unit of account equal to one pound of silver. [citation needed] It was subdivided into 20 sous (also sols), each of 12 deniers.[citation needed] The word livre came from the Latin word libra, a Roman unit of weight and still the name of a pound in modern French, and the denier comes from the Roman denarius.
These foreign-currency deposits are the financial assets of the central banks and monetary authorities that are held in different reserve currencies (e.g., the U.S. dollar, the euro, the pound sterling, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc, the Indian rupees and the Chinese renminbi) and which are used to back its liabilities (e.g., the local ...
The remaining convertible mark of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a currency that officially replaced the German mark as de facto currency of the ruptured economy and hyper-inflation of local divided currencies after the Bosnian war, pegged to the German mark 1:1 at the time, and further pegged to Euro at the rate at which German mark was replaced, i ...
The logo of the UK Independence Party, a British political party, is based on the pound sign, [23] symbolising the party's opposition to adoption of the euro and to the European Union generally. A symbol that appears to be a double-barred pound sign is used as the logo of the record label Parlophone.
But since words for foreign currencies (like dollar and yen) normally do not have the endings -er or -ar in Norwegian the Norwegian Language Council reached a decision in 1996 that the proper declension of the word euro should be in Bokmål: en euro – euroen – euro – euroene. in Nynorsk: ein euro – euroen – euro – euroane