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Dollar
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Dollar is the name of more than 20 currencies. The United States dollar, named after the international currency known as the Spanish dollar, was established in 1792 and is the first so named that still survives. Others include the Australian dollar, Brunei dollar, Canadian dollar, Eastern Caribbean dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Jamaican dollar, Liberian dollar, Namibian dollar, New Taiwan dollar, New Zealand dollar, Singapore dollar, Trinidad and Tobago Dollar and several others. The symbol for most of those currencies is the dollar sign $ in the same way as many countries using peso currencies. The name "dollar" originates from Bohemia and a 29 g silver-coin called the Joachimsthaler.
Eastern Caribbean dollar
(Netherlands): US dollar
US dollar (alongside the pound sterling)
US dollar
Eastern Caribbean dollar
(Netherlands): US dollar
(France): Canadian dollar (alongside the euro)
(Netherlands): US dollar
US dollar
Afghanistan: US dollar
Argentina: US dollar
Bolivia: US dollar
Cambodia: US dollar
Cuba: US dollar
Guatemala: US dollar
Lebanon: US dollar
Macau: Hong Kong dollar
Maldives: US dollar
Myanmar: US dollar
North Korea: US dollar
Panama: US dollar
Paraguay: US dollar
Peru: US dollar
Philippines: US dollar
Uruguay: US dollar
Venezuela: US dollar
Confederate States of America: The Confederate States dollar issued from March 1861 to 1865
Ethiopia: The name "Ethiopian dollar" was used in the English text on the birr banknotes before the Derg takeover in 1974.
Malaysia: the Malaysian ringgit used to be called the "Malaysian Dollar". The surrounding territories (that is, Malaya, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Brunei, and Singapore) used several varieties of dollars (for example, Straits dollar, Malayan dollar, Sarawak dollar, British North Borneo dollar; Malaya and British Borneo dollar) before Malaya, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore and Brunei gained their independence from the United Kingdom. See also for complete list of currencies.
Sierra Leone: The Sierra Leonean dollar was used from 1791 to 1805.
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