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cur·ren·cy  audio  (kûrn-s, kr-) KEY  

NOUN:
pl. cur·ren·cies
  1. Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.
  2. Transmission from person to person as a medium of exchange; circulation: coins now in currency.
  3. General acceptance or use; prevalence: the currency of a slang term.
  4. The state of being current; up-to-dateness: Can you check the currency of this address?

ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English curraunt, in circulation ; see current

Currency Table: Listed by Country

Country Basic Unit Subunit Country Basic Unit Subunit Country Basic Unit Subunit
Afghanistan afghani 100 puls Grenada dollar 100 cents Pakistan rupee 100 paisa
Albania lek 100 qindarka Guatemala quetzal 100 centavos Palau dollar 100 cents
Algeria dinar 100 centimes Guinea franc 100 centimes Panama balboa 100 centesimos
Andorra* peseta 100 centimos Guinea-Bissau franc 100 centimes Papua New Guinea kina 100 toea
Angola kwanza 100 lwei Guyana dollar 100 cents Paraguay guarani 100 centimos
Antigua and Barbuda dollar 100 cents Haiti gourde 100 centimes Peru sol 100 centimos
Argentina peso 100 centavos Honduras lempira 100 centavos Philippines piso 100 centavos
Armenia dram 100 lumma Hong Kong dollar 100 cents Poland zloty 100 groszy
Australia dollar 100 cents Hungary forint 100 fillers Portugal* escudo 100 centavos
Austria* schilling 100 groschen Iceland krona 100 aurar Qatar riyal 100 dirhams
Azerbaijan manat 100 qepiq India rupee 100 paise Romania leu 100 bani
Bahamas dollar 100 cents Indonesia rupiah 100 sen Russia ruble 100 kopeks
Bahrain dinar 1000 fils Iran rial 100 dinars Rwanda franc 100 centimes
Bangladesh taka 100 poisha Iraq dinar 1000 fils Saint Kitts and Nevis dollar 100 cents
Barbados dollar 100 cents Ireland* pound 100 pence Saint Lucia dollar 100 cents
Belarus rubel 100 kapeikas Israel sheqel 100 agorot Saint Vincent and the Grenadines dollar 100 cents
Belgium* franc 100 centimes Italy* lira 100 centesimi Samoa tala 100 sene
Belize dollar 100 cents Ivory Coast franc 100 centimes San Marino* lira 100 centesimi
Benin franc 100 centimes Jamaica dollar 100 cents São Tomé and Príncipe dobra 100 centimos
Bhutan ngultrum 100 chetrum Japan yen 100 sen Saudi Arabia riyal 100 halalas
Bolivia boliviano 100 centavos Jordan dinar 100 piasters Senegal franc 100 centimes
Bosnia and Herzegovina marka 100 pfenigs Kazakhstan tenge 100 tiyin Seychelles rupee 100 cents
Botswana pula 100 thebe Kenya shilling 100 cents Sierra Leone leone 100 cents
Brazil real 100 centavos Kiribati dollar 100 cents Singapore dollar 100 cents
Brunei dollar 100 cents Kuwait dinar 1000 fils Slovakia koruna 100 haliers
Bulgaria lev 100 stotinki Kyrgyzstan som 100 tyiyn Slovenia tolar 100 stotins
Burkina Faso franc 100 centimes Laos kip 100 at Solomon Islands dollar 100 cents
Burundi franc 100 centimes Latvia lats 100 santimi Somalia shilin 100 cents
Cambodia riel 100 sen Lebanon livre 100 piasters South Africa rand 100 cents
Cameroon franc 100 centimes Lesotho loti 100 lisente South Korea won 100 chon
Canada dollar 100 cents Liberia dollar 100 cents Spain* peseta 100 centimos
Cape Verde escudo 100 centavos Libya dinar 100 dirhams Sri Lanka rupee 100 cents
Central African Republic franc 100 centimes Liechtenstein franc 100 centimes Sudan dinar 10 pounds
Chad franc 100 centimes Lithuania litas 100 centas Suriname guilder 100 cents
Chile peso 100 centavos Luxembourg* franc 100 centimes Swaziland lilangeni 100 cents
China yuan 10 jiao Macao pataca 100 avos Sweden krona 100 öre
Colombia peso 100 centavos Macedonia denar 100 deni Switzerland franc 100 centimes
Comoros franc 100 centimes Madagascar franc 100 centimes Syria pound 100 piasters
Congo (Dem. Rep. of) franc 100 centimes Malawi kwacha 100 tambala Taiwan dollar 100 cents
Congo (Rep. of) franc 100 centimes Malaysia ringgit 100 sen Tajikistan ruble 100 tanga
Costa Rica colon 100 centimos Maldives rufiyaa 100 laari Tanzania shilling 100 cents
Croatia kuna 100 lipa Mali franc 100 centimes Thailand baht 100 satang
Cuba peso 100 centavos Malta lira 100 cents Togo franc 100 centimes
Cyprus pound 100 cents Marshall Islands dollar 100 cents Tonga pa'anga 100 seniti
Czech Republic koruna 100 halers Mauritania ouguiya 5 khoums Trinidad and Tobago dollar 100 cents
Denmark krone 100 øre Mauritius rupee 100 cents Tunisia dinar 1000 millimes
Djibouti franc 100 centimes Mexico peso 100 centavos Turkey lira 100 kurus
Dominica dollar 100 cents Micronesia dollar 100 cents Turkmenistan manat 100 tenge
Dominican Republic peso 100 centavos Moldova leu 100 bani Tuvalu dollar 100 cents
Ecuador sucre 100 centavos Monaco* franc 100 centimes Uganda shilling 100 cents
Egypt pound 100 piasters Mongolia tugrik 100 mongo Ukraine hryvnia 100 kopiykas
El Salvador colon 100 centavos Morocco dirham 100 centimes United Arab Emirates dirham 100 fils
Equatorial Guinea franc 100 centimes Mozambique metical 100 centavos United Kingdom pound 100 pence
Eritrea nakfa 100 cents Myanmar kyat 100 pyas United States dollar 100 cents
Estonia kroon 100 senti Namibia dollar 100 cents Uruguay peso 100 centesimos
Ethiopia birr 100 cents Nauru dollar 100 cents Uzbekistan sum 100 tyyn
Fiji dollar 100 cents Nepal rupee 100 paisa Vanuatu vatu  
Finland* markka 100 pennis Netherlands* guilder 100 cents Vatican City* lira 100 centesimi
France* franc 100 centimes New Zealand dollar 100 cents Venezuela bolivar 100 centimos
Gabon franc 100 centimes Nicaragua cordoba 100 centavos Vietnam dong 10 hao
Gambia dalasi 100 bututs Niger franc 100 centimes Yemen rial 100 fils
Georgia lari 100 tetri Nigeria naira 100 kobo Yugoslavia dinar 100 para
Germany* deutsche mark 100 pfennigs North Korea won 100 chon Zambia kwacha 100 ngwee
Ghana cedi 100 pesewas Norway krone 100 øre Zimbabwe dollar 100 cents
Greece* drachma 100 lepta Oman rial 1000 baisa      
* Banknotes denominated in euros began circulating in 2002. Subunit of the euro is the cent.Copyright (c) 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company

Currency Table: Listed by Basic Unit (Bold) and Subunit

Unit Country Unit Country Unit Country Unit Country Unit Country
afghani Afghanistan centesimo Italy*   Jamaica kopiyka Ukraine   Lebanon
agora Israel   Panama   Kiribati koruna Czech Republic   Syria
at Laos   San Marino   Liberia   Slovakia poisha Bangladesh
avo Macao   Uruguay   Marshall Islands krona Iceland pound Cyprus
baht Thailand   Vatican City   Micronesia   Sweden   Egypt
baisa Oman centime Algeria   Namibia krone Denmark   Ireland
balboa Panama   Belgium   Nauru   Norway   Lebanon
ban Moldova   Benin   New Zealand kroon Estonia   Syria
  Romania   Burkina Faso   Palau kuna Croatia   United Kingdom
birr Ethiopia   Burundi   Saint Kitts and Nevis kurus Turkey pound Sudan
bolivar Venezuela   Cameroon   Saint Lucia kwacha Malawi pul Afghanistan
boliviano Bolivia   Central African Republic   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines   Zambia pula Botswana
butut Gambia   Chad   Singapore kwanza Angola pya Myanmar
cedi Ghana   Comoros   Solomon Islands kyat Myanmar qepiq Azerbaijan
cent Antigua and Barbuda   Congo (Dem. Rep. of)   Taiwan laari Maldives qindarka Albania
  Australia   Congo (Rep. of)   Trinidad and Tobago lari Georgia quetzal Guatemala
  Bahamas   Djibouti   Tuvalu lats Latvia rand South Africa
  Barbados   Equatorial Guinea   United States lek Albania real Brazil
  Belize   France   Zimbabwe lempira Honduras rial Iran
  Brunei   Gabon dong Vietnam leone Sierra Leone   Oman
  Canada   Guinea drachma Greece lepton Greece   Yemen
  Cyprus   Guinea-Bissau dram Armenia leu Moldova riel Cambodia
  Dominica   Haiti escudo Cape Verde   Romania ringgit Malaysia
  Ethiopia   Ivory Coast   Portugal lev Bulgaria riyal Qatar
  Fiji   Liechtenstein eyrir Iceland lilangeni Swaziland   Saudi Arabia
  Grenada   Luxembourg filler Hungary lipa Croatia rubel Belarus
  Guyana   Madagascar fils Bahrain lira Italy ruble Russia
  Hong Kong   Mali   Iraq   Malta   Tajikistan
  Jamaica   Monaco   Kuwait   San Marino rufiyaa Maldives
  Kenya   Morocco   United Arab Emirates   Turkey rupee India
  Kiribati   Niger   Yemen   Vatican City   Mauritius
  Liberia   Rwanda forint Hungary lisente (pl. of sente)   Nepal
  Malta   Senegal franc Belgium litas Lithuania   Pakistan
  Marshall Islands   Switzerland   Benin livre Lebanon   Seychelles
  Mauritius   Togo   Burkina Faso loti Lesotho   Sri Lanka
  Micronesia centimo Andorra   Burundi lumma Armenia rupiah Indonesia
  Namibia   Costa Rica   Cameroon lwei Angola santims Latvia
  Nauru   Paraguay   Central African manat Azerbaijan satang Thailand
  Netherlands   Peru   Chad   Turkmenistan schilling Austria
  New Zealand   São Tomé and Príncipe   Comoros marka Bosnia and Herzegovina sen Cambodia
  Palau   Spain   Congo (Rep. of) markka Finland   Indonesia
  Saint Kitts and Nevis   Venezuela   Congo (Dem. Rep. of) metical Mozambique   Japan
  Saint Lucia chetrum Bhutan   Djibouti millime Tunisia   Malaysia
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines chon North Korea   Equatorial Guinea mongo Mongolia sene Samoa
  Seychelles   South Korea   France naira Nigeria seniti Tonga
  Sierra Leone colon Costa Rica   Gabon nakfa Eritrea sent Estonia
  Singapore   El Salvador   Guinea ngultrum Bhutan sente Lesotho
  Solomon Islands cordoba Nicaragua   Guinea-Bissau ngwee Zambia sheqel Israel
  Somalia dalasi Gambia   Ivory Coast øre Denmark shilin Somalia
  South Africa denar Macedonia   Liechtenstein   Norway shilling Kenya
  Sri Lanka deni Macedonia   Luxembourg öre Sweden   Tanzania
  Suriname deutsche mark Germany   Madagascar ouguiya Mauritania   Uganda
  Swaziland dinar Algeria   Mali pa'anga Tonga sol Peru
  Taiwan   Bahrain   Monaco paisa India som Kyrgyzstan
  Tanzania   Iraq   Niger   Nepal stotinka Bulgaria
  Trinidad and Tobago   Jordan   Rwanda   Pakistan stotin Slovenia
  Tuvalu   Kuwait   Senegal para Bosnia and Herzegovina sucre Ecuador
  Uganda   Libya   Switzerland   Yugoslavia sum Uzbekistan
  United States   Sudan   Togo pataca Macao taka Bangladesh
  Zimbabwe   Tunisia gourde Haiti penni Finland tala Samoa
centas Lithuania   Yugoslavia groschen Austria penny Ireland tambala Malawi
centavo Argentina dinar Iran grosz Poland   United Kingdom tanga Tajikistan
  Bolivia dirham Morocco guarani Paraguay peseta Andorra tenge Kazakhstan
  Brazil   United Arab Emirates guilder Netherlands   Spain tenge Turkmenistan
  Cape Verde dirham Libya   Suriname pesewa Ghana tetri Georgia
  Chile   Qatar halala Saudi Arabia peso Argentina thebe Botswana
  Colombia dobra São Tomé and Príncipe haler Czech Republic   Chile tiyin Kazakhstan
  Cuba dollar Antigua and Barbuda halier Slovakia   Colombia toea Papua New Guinea
  Dominican Republic   Australia hao Vietnam   Cuba tolar Slovenia
  Ecuador   Bahamas hryvnia Ukraine   Dominican Republic tugrik Mongolia
  El Salvador   Barbados jiao China   Mexico tyiyn Kyrgyzstan
  Guatemala   Belize kapeika Belarus   Uruguay tyyn Uzbekistan
  Honduras   Brunei khoum Mauritania     vatu Vanuatu
  Mexico   Canada kina Papua New Guinea piso Philippines won North Korea
  Mozambique   Dominica kip Laos pfenig Bosnia and Herzegovina   South Korea
  Nicaragua   Fiji kobo Nigeria pfennig Germany yen Japan
  Philippines   Grenada kopek Russia piaster Egypt yuan China
  Portugal   Guyana       Jordan zloty Poland
      Hong Kong            
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