Several countries chose to change the main currency unit at the same time.
It shows how much a local currency unit is worth within the country's borders.
More than 1000 submissions were made about the name of the new currency unit.
Some currencies do not have any minor currency unit at all.
This was the reason for the reintroduction of won in 1962 as the official currency unit.
It has been among the highest-valued currency units in the world.
The franc (₣) is the name of several currency units.
Monetary amounts in the range of one to two major currency units are often spoken differently.
The name real was resurrected in 1994 for a new currency unit, which is still in use.
Tibet had a dual and therefore complicated system of currency units.