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The note is used as the sole currency in Poland, a country with a population of about 38 million.

Mexican dollars were long the sole currency on the Chinese coast.

This became the sole currency of mainland China at the end of the civil war.

By 1924, the chervonets pushed out the old Soviet banknotes and became the sole currency.

It mints and issues metal and paper nuevos soles currency.

However, sometimes the term eurozone is applied to all territories that have adopted the euro as their sole currency.

It also uses the euro as its sole currency and has an agreement with the EU allowing them to mint their own coins.

Kosovo and Montenegro officially adopted the euro as their sole currency without an agreement and, therefore, have no issuing rights.

The note is used daily by some 332 million Europeans and in the 22 countries which have it as their sole currency (with 20 legally adopting it).

These Nepali coins, called "Mahendramalli," were the sole currency in circulation throughout Tibet for more than a century.

This arrangement ended with the economic and currency union in July 1990, when the DM became the sole currency in both German states.

Consumers still have to compare prices in 12 currencies, because squabbles about whether the ecu is to be Europe's sole currency or an additional one are limiting its use.

A better idea might be this: the strong economies (Germany, Netherlands, FInland, Austria, France) retain the euro as their sole currency.

There is no medium of exchange on Sirene; the single and sole currency is strakh. . . . Thissell rubbed his chin and read further.

The American dollar, known here as the balboa, is the country's sole currency, and the supply of dollars depends to a large extent on factors the Panamanian Government cannot completely control.

At the beginning of the third stage intra-EC exchange rates are to be fixed and after a relatively short period the ECU will replace member countries' currencies as the Community's sole currency.

Monaco is a de facto member of the Schengen area (its borders and customs territory are treated as part of France) and it officially uses the euro as its sole currency.

In 1898, the Spanish-American War made the Spanish peseta drop alarmingly and the pound was introduced as the sole currency of the colony, initially in the form of British coins and banknotes.

The Deutsche Mark (West) became the sole currency for West Berlin on March 21, 1949 and seven month later the stamps of the western bizone as well as the French oocupation zone became valid as well.

The treaty, which requires the approval of the two German Parliaments, will not only make the West German Deutsche mark the sole currency for both countries but also convert East Germany's economy from socialist central planning to free market principles.

The euro is the sole currency of 16 EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.

Via a monetary agreement, San Marino uses the euro as its sole currency (it previously used the Sammarinese lira, set at par with the Italian lira) and is allowed to mint a limited number of coins itself with their own design.

With the enactment of the National Banking Act of 1863, during the American Civil War and its later versions that taxed states' bonds and currency out of existence, the dollar became the sole currency of the United States and remains so today.

The local population, for reasons of practicality in relation to the increasing trade with the neighbouring United States, had a desire to assimilate their colonial currency with the American unit, but the imperial authorities in London still preferred sterling as the sole currency throughout the British Empire.

That hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou call for privatization of everything reveals the moral bankruptcy of their solutions: under such direction, America would look increasingly like Yugoslavia, each enclave claiming some plot as wholly its own, with violence remaining the sole currency between uncompromising selves interested only in their personal welfare.