The chart lists the official names for selected currencies around the world. Colonial legacies have made certain names -- dollar, peso, franc, and pound -- widespread. The traveler should not assume equivalency in value, or transferability, among units sharing a name; that is, one cannot spend Central African francs in France or Turkish lira in Rome.
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| Afghanistan | afghani | 100 puls |
| Algeria | dinar | 100 centimes |
| Argentina | austral | 100 centavos |
| Australia | dollar | 100 cents |
| Austria | schilling | 100 groschen |
| Bahamas | dollar | 100 cents |
| Bahrain | dinar | 1,000 fils |
| Barbados | dollar | 100 cents |
| Belgium | franc | 100 centimes |
| Belize | dollar | 100 cents |
| Benin | franc | 100 centimes |
| Bolivia | boliviano | 100 centavos |
| Brunei | dollar | 100 cents or sen |
| Bulgaria | lev | 100 stotinki |
| Cameroon | franc | 100 centimes |
| Canada | dollar | 100 cents |
| Cayman Islands | dollar | 100 cents |
| Central African Rep. | franc | 100 centimes |
| Chad | franc | 100 centimes |
| Chile | peso | 100 centavos |
| China | yuan | 10 fen |
| Columbia | peso | 100 centavos |
| Congo | franc | 100 centimes |
| Costa Rica | colon | 100 centimos |
| Cuba | peso | 100 centavos |
| Czechoslovakia | koruna | 100 halers |
| Denmark | krone | 100 ore |
| Djibouti | franc | 100 centimes |
| Dominican Rep. | peso | 100 centavos |
| Ecuador | sucre | 100 centavos |
| Egypt | pound | 100 piastres |
| El Salvador | colon | 100 centavos |
| Ethiopia | birr | 100 cents |
| Fiji | dollar | 100 cents |
| Finland | markka | 100 pennia |
| France | franc | 100 centimes |
| Gabon | franc | 100 centimes |
| Gambia | dalasi | 100 bututs |
| Germany | deutsche mark | 100 pfennige |
| Ghana | cedi | 100 pesewas |
| Greece | drachma | 100 lepta |
| Guatemala | quetzal | 100 centavos |
| Guinea | franc | 100 centimes |
| Guyana | dollar | 100 cents |
| Haiti | gourde | 100 centimes |
| Honduras | lempira | 100 centavos |
| Hong Kong | dollar | 100 cents |
| Hungary | forint | 100 filler |
| Iceland | Krona | 100 aurar |
| India | rupee | 100 paise |
| Indonesia | rupiah | 100 sen |
| Iraq | dinar | 1,000 fils |
| Ireland | pound | 100 pence |
| Israel | shekel | 100 agorot |
| Italy | lira | 100 centesimi |
| Ivory Coast | franc | 100 centimes |
| Jamaica | dollar | 100 cents |
| Japan | yen | |
| Jordan | dinar | 1,000 fils |
| Kenya | shilling | 100 cents |
| Kuwait | dinar | 1,000 fils |
| Lebanon | pound | 100 piastres |
| Luxembourg | franc | 100 centimes |