fiat currency
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concept
A fiat currency is a government-issued form of money that has value primarily because a government maintains it and people have faith in its acceptance, rather than being backed by a physical commodity like gold or silver.
Aliases (4)
- national currency ×56
- legal tender ×22
- local currency ×1
- regional currency ×1
Instances (216)
- New Zealand dollar
- US dollar
- Peruvian sol
- Euro
- Soviet ruble
- DM
- Allied Military Mark
- ITL
- Napoleonic Italian lira
- Tunisian dinar
- Norwegian krone
- United Arab Emirates dirham
- Falkland Islands pound ("legal tender")
- Gibraltar pound ("legal tender")
- Saint Helena pound ("legal tender")
- Japanese yen
- Iranian rial
- Manx pound ("legal tender")
- United States Note ("legal tender")
- Australian dollar
- Italian lira
- Ecuadorian sucre (former currency code ECS)
- Rhodesian dollar
- Chinese yuan
- Rhodesian pound
- Lebanese pound
- Boliviano
- Mexican peso
- Allied Military Currency
- Vietnamese đồng
- Haitian gourde
- Pound sterling
- Jersey pound
- Guernsey pound ("local currency")
- Hungarian forint
- Polish złoty
- Algerian dinar
- Solomon Islands dollar
- Danish krone
- Ghanaian cedi
- Federal Reserve Note
- Iraqi dinar
- Liberian dollar
- Ukrainian hryvnia
- Saudi riyal
- Egyptian pound
- Zimbabwean dollar
- Ethiopian birr
- Swiss franc
- Jordanian dinar
- Czechoslovak koruna
- Jamaican dollar
- Moroccan dirham
- North Korean won
- Brazilian real
- Central African CFA franc ("legal tender")
- Cypriot pound
- Romanian leu
- KZT
- Indian rupee
- Thai baht
- Maltese lira
- United States coins ("legal tender")
- Icelandic króna
- Dutch guilder
- Congolese franc
- Afghan afghani
- Russian ruble
- Brunei dollar
- Macanese pataca
- Austro-Hungarian krone
- Israeli new shekel
- Barbadian dollar
- Confederate States dollar
- Trinidad and Tobago dollar
- Nigerian naira
- East Caribbean dollar ("legal tender")
- Bulgarian lev
- Syrian pound
- Korean yen (early period)
- Yugoslav dinar
- Cuban peso ("legal tender")
- Indonesian rupiah
- South Korean won
- Lao kip
- Libyan dinar
- Renminbi banknotes
- Ugandan shilling
- Peruvian inti
- inti
- nuevo sol
- West African CFA franc ("legal tender")
- Mauritanian ouguiya
- Belarusian ruble
- Qatari riyal
- Somali shilling
- Fijian dollar
- Armenian dram
- Australian banknotes ("legal tender")
- Mozambican metical
- Spanish peseta
- Djiboutian franc
- Kuwaiti dinar
- Polish marka
- Slovak koruna
- Nepalese rupee
- Angolan kwanza
- Albanian lek
- Malaysian ringgit
- Finnish markka
- New Taiwan dollar
- Guatemalan quetzal
- Canadian dollar
- Lesotho loti
- LSL
- Turkmenistan manat
- Papua New Guinean kina
- Bhutanese ngultrum
- United States dollar coins ("legal tender")
- Kenyan shilling
- Myanmar kyat
- Colombian peso
- Swedish krona
- euro (indirectly, via later French franc)
- Greek drachma (Latin Monetary Union) ("national currency")
- Kyrgyzstani som
- Bangladeshi taka
- Turkish lira
- Belize dollar
- Tajikistani somoni
- Sudanese pound
- Serbian dinar
- Namibian dollar
- Kazakhstani tenge
- Honduran lempira
- Macedonian denar
- Chilean peso
- Belgian franc (Latin Monetary Union) ("national currency")
- Irish Free State pound ("national currency")
- Panamanian balboa
- Philippine peso
- Hong Kong dollar
- Nicaraguan córdoba
- Czech koruna
- Uzbekistani soʻm
- Cape Verdean escudo
- Costa Rican colón
- Latvian lats
- São Tomé and Príncipe dobra ("legal tender")
- Cambodian riel
- Singapore dollar
- litas
- Venezuelan bolívar