Currencies and countries  The World Currencies Database includes
788 currency symbols, names and countries with historical or
other coinage information and has received over 16908 search
inquires.  Selected term: Euro  Explanation: Monetary unit
adopted by 12 European Union (EU) countries on 1 Jan. 2002 -
Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Monetary
control was to move to the European Central Bank (ECB), which
would set a single interest rate for the 11 countries. The three
other members of the EU Denmark, Sweden and the U.K. were not
adopting the euro, at least for the time being. The euro entered
full circulation in the middle of 2002  A currency is a unit of
exchange and hence a kind of money and medium of exchange.
Currency includes paper banknotes and metal coins, which today
are the dominant means of exchange. If you could not find the
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