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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines uses the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD) as its official currency, a regional currency shared with seven other members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. The EC dollar replaced the British West Indies dollar in the mid-1960s and, since 1976, has been pegged to the US dollar at a fixed […]
Saint Lucia uses the Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC$), the shared currency of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, whose other members are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the British territories of Anguilla and Montserrat. The Eastern Caribbean dollar was introduced in 1965 as the successor to […]
Saint Kitts and Nevis uses the Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC$), the shared currency of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, whose other members are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the British territories of Anguilla and Montserrat. The Eastern Caribbean dollar was introduced in 1965 as the successor to […]
Peru’s currency is the sol, introduced in 1991 at a rate of one sol to one million intis to end the hyperinflation that had devastated the earlier Peruvian inti. The currency was officially called the nuevo sol until 2015, when Peru’s Congress renamed it simply the sol. Issued by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru […]
Paraguay’s currency, the guaraní, was created by a law passed on October 5, 1943, with the first notes issued in 1944 to replace the peso fuerte at a rate of one guaraní to 100 pesos. The currency was pegged to the US dollar at 126 guaraníes per dollar from 1960 until the peg ended in […]
