International currency

[Loafing Smurf]

I was wondering what currency is called in other countries.

Like I know in Canada and America, its called dollars and cents. Then in the U.K its pounds and pence.

I was wondering what the unit of cents is for Euros?

[Craig.]

its cents LOL
or so i have been lead to believe

[Tequila Sunrise]

yep  ::)

[ATI_7500]

Euros and cents.

[ozzy72]

In Hungary its just the Forint these days, we used to have 100 Fillers to a Forint....

[WebbPA]

The Costa Rican colon is kind of neat.  It's divided into 100 centimos.  (The accent is on the last syllable.)

When I was there about 10 years ago 1 US Dollar was about equal to 1 Colon.  Costa Rican beer was 1 colon or 1 dollar.  Imported beer was about 2.5 colones.  The exchange rate today is 1 US Dollar = 462.220 Costa Rican Colon.  Wow, I could go ape there for a couple of bucks.

Costa Rican electrical current is identical to American so there is no need for Americans to take converters with them.

Costa Rica has no standing army.

Just a couple of things I learned on an interesting trip.

[Loafing Smurf]

Interesting exchange units.

Yup, its cents for Euros, it even says cents on the coins.

[Mozz]

Here, its 1 dinar with 1000 fils in it, but its fairly simple, the fils are in 100 fils coins.

Cyprus they have cypriot pounds and 100 cents in each one.

[Jaffa]

My Dutch eurocent says  "1 Euro Cent"  on it.

[Fozzer]

...just a temporary sideways move.... ...!
Does anyone know the approximate current conversion factors for:

US dollars to GB pounds.
GB pounds to US dollars.

Useful for knowing the exchange rate when purchasing on Ebay.... ...!

Many thanks,

Paul.

[Woodlouse2002]

A good rule of thumb these days is to devide by two for Pounds into Dollars. I'm afraid that the Dollar is only worth 50-60p these days.