There are now 36 governments that use the DOLLAR as their
monetary unit. Some of these governments share one currency,
while in other cases a government will use the currency of another
nation rather than issue a currency of their own.
Thus, the Australian Dollar is used by Kiribati and Tuvalu, while
the United States Dollar is used by the British Virgin Islands, the
Marshall Islands, Palau, Turks and Caicos, Panama (although Panama
uses the term "Balboa" as it's monetary unit on coins), and Liberia,
which has from time to time issued it's own dollar notes.
The island nations of Anguilla, Antigua, Dominica, Grenada,
Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and St. Vincent all join in issuing
the East Caribbean Dollar.
To complete a set of the world's Dollar notes, one must collect
22 different ones - and they make a very colorful display.
Compared to the value of the U.S. Dollar, only one dollar has a
greater value, the Cayman Islands Dollar is worth US$1.20, while the
Guyana dollar is worth only
US$0.006. |