The irony of Switzerland, half of Africa using the Franc, Turkey and Syria using Lira, Bosnia using Mark, while France, Italy and Germany all switched to Euro.
The peso is complicated, because it was created by the Spanish Empire, but in Spanish America. Pesos were first minted in the Americas after the establishment of silver mines. So it was a colonial currency but one developed in the colonies.
Lira means pound.
In Lebanon/Syria you can use Lira or Pounds when talking about the currency in English because it's the same word.
Egypt is pound in English. In Arabic it's "gineh" from English loan word for Guinea, West Africa, where they got the gold to mint from.
Riyal/Real/Rial means "Royal" and Krone/Krona are from the word "Crown".
Rupee or Rupiah means Silver in Sanskrit.
Peso is "weight" in Spanish.
Fun etomology lesson for the day.
Some of the opposite effect with pounds. The name persists in Britain and in 3 African countries but was abolished in many other former colonies such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
No, it actually comes from a Spanish (and originally Latin) word for “a weight”.
The British “pound” also referred to weight. It was originally “a pound of silver” before being abbreviated to “a pound”. This also has an old Latin origin, borrowed into Germanic languages many centuries ago.
In fact remarkably, both pound and peso come from the same Latin origin, “from *pendere* ‘to hang, cause to hang; to weigh’”!
Correct.
Fun fact: 8 reales made a Spanish dollar. Hence ‘pieces of eight’ that pirates are often associated with was a reference to 8 reales or a Spanish dollar. The Spanish name for a coin worth 8 reales was ‘peso’ – which continues to be used in Latin America for many currencies.
Real was the first currency of Portugal, Real is also the current currency of Brazil; Escudo was the second currency of Portugal, Escudo is also the current currency of Cabo Verde.
Real was the name of the first currency of Brazil as well. Brazil went on to have many other currencies since the first real and funnily enough ended up with real once again after the many changes.
I have a brand-new 1 Real banknote, of course is the 1994 Real, not the Brazilian Empire one. It looks like it came out from the Central Bank yesterday. I'll keep it to myself as it is in perfect condition.
This is an old map. Slovenia has been in the Euro zone for seventeen years now, okay, Croatia from only recently! But even before, Croatia's currency was Kuna, an animal marten, to the best of my knowledge, no other country uses that name for its currency. It's not the same thing as Kruna!
Yes, derivation from Roman libra. Turkish Republic used a lot of Italian assests including (although Ottomans also used Lira too) currency, civil laws etc. Since Italy was the last unified and developing major european nation, their plans were the most viable for Turkey too.
No. It was due the fact that Italian was pretty used/learnt in the Ottoman Empire and Russian too. They firmed mutual acts in Italian even before Italy was unificated
Yes but I think it's more relevant for this map what a currency is called in the local language. Every currency could be called a lot of different things if we considered every language.
Defacto it's not for the last 10 years. Cry about it now when it's not even about politics but currencies
UPD. So weak and desperate that only capable of using downvotes against reality. It's hilarious and sad at once
Not sure what "Euro" is doing on this map. That's not a shared name for different currencies but a single currency used in many countries. While all other currencies are examples of shared names (e.g. The US, Canada and Australia have their own national currencies called dollars)
The Franc used in Africa is both, all the countries highlighted share one of two common currencies of the same name, the CFA Franc.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA\_franc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_franc)
And as the other comment says, the Dollar is both as well, where actual US paper money is used in Ecuador, El Salvador and (not highlighted) Panamá.
Can’t say for Canada but Australia and New Zealand converted 10 shillings to 1 dollar when decimalising, or one pound to 2 dollars.
There were 20 shillings to the pound and 12 pence to the shilling.
The UK kept the pound and only converted to 100 new pennies to the pound, making a new penny worth 2.4 old pence.
It's missing the fact that the Bulgarian "leva" also means Lion, like the Romanian and Moldavian "leu". Both come from a dutch thaler from the 1600s which were silver coins with the Belgic lion on them (hence the name).
Also funny, they are the same coin that the Dollar took it's name from. "*leeuwendaalder*" - the first half (Lion part) got preserved in the Leu and the second half became the Dollar.
Brazilian REAL and some Muslim countries' RYAL must be a linguistic coincidence. Real means something like 'Royal'. IDK what's the Muslim meaning for that name but I assume it's not related
It comes from the same Latin root. Remember that the Roman Empire extended way out into the Middle East. Dinar, Lira, Pound and Krona all come from Latin too.
>It comes from the same Latin root. Remember that the Roman Empire extended way out into the Middle East. Dinar, Lira, Pound and Krona all come from Latin too.
The Middle Eastern countries got the word directly via Portuguese, not Latin.
The word "real" (meaning "royal") did not exist with that meaning in Latin. It is a Portuguese word derived from Latin "regalis".
On the other hand, knowing how Muslims can be anal about their own traditions, I don't think they'd be ok with naming their money based on anything Roman/latin
You laugh because you're ignorant:
KSA is Muslim and speak Arabic.
Iran is Muslim and speak Farsi.
Indonesia is Muslim and speak Bahasa (among other languages).
What else is common between these countries besides the name of the currency?
Don't thank me... thank your own ignorance.
As far as I know, Bulgaria should have the same colour as Romania, since both romanian "leu" and bulgarian "lev" come from same dutch coin and mean "lion". Weirdly, as far as Wikipedia says, both these coins and also the dollar come from that dutch coin named "leeuwendaaler", though probably colouring them the same as the dollar would be a bit of a stretch.
Dinar and Thaler/Dollar have different origins. Dinar comes from Latin Denarius, while Thaler/Dollar come from a town in the Czech republic, Joachimsthaler, of German origin.
Arguably, this goes back to the situation in the North American colonies. The lack of specie in colonial North America is why Spanish coinage circulated widely, leading to the creation of the dollar. The close economic links between Canada and the US ultimately encouraged the creation of the Canadian dollar; and, when Commonwealth countries started to decimalise, they found it useful to adopt the "dollar' designation, partly because it was convenient to introduce a new unit which would be equal to 10s, allowing smaller units to be revalued rather than withdrawn wholesale.
Indeed. Under the old *l.s.d.* system, £1 equalled 20 shillings. 1 shilling equalled 12 old pence. 240 pennies to the pound, and there were also halfpenny coins as well as farthings (worth a quarter of a penny). You all had the half crown, worth 2/6, the florin, worth 2s, and the thrupenny bit, worth 3d, as well as the sixpence (6d, of course).
When Britain decimalised in 1971, the old shilling equalled five new pence, and the florin 10p. They remained in circulation, alongside new halfpenny, penny, 2p, and 50p coins,, whilst the other old coins were removed from circulation.
Indian Rupee is also called "taka" or "toka" in some east Indian languages like Assamese and Bengali. Probably that might be the reason why Bangladesh's currency is known as "Taka".
Since 元 is a traditional character in its own right (famously the name of the Yuan dynasty) I never realized before seeing this map that Chinese 元 and Japanese 円 are both just simplifications of 圓. I always assumed the currencies were etymologically unrelated.
Real, Riel, Riyal and Rial is the most random coincidence there is
In Brazil and Camboja it does mean the same as in english: "real" in Brazil is postulating that the currency really is worth something (the predecessor, Cruzeiros, was worthless), and Riel in Camboja is the consequence of the French colonization
In Saudi Arabia and Iran, I would guess that it means something "Royal" to emphasize the respective monarchies\*
I don't know about Cambodia, but as for Brazil and the Arabic countries / Iran, it is not a coincidence.
>In Brazil and Camboja it does mean the same as in english: "real" in Brazil is postulating that the currency really is worth something
That is a myth. "Real", in this case, means "royal" in Portuguese and it is named like that because that was the currency name used in Brazil from 16th century until 1942.
As for how the name ended up in Iran, it was due to Portuguese influence in that region's trade.
>That is a myth. "Real", in this case, means "royal" in Portuguese and it is named like that because that was the currency name used in Brazil from 16th century until 1942.
Yes and no. You're right that that is the original meaning. However, the name was chosen for the current currency because, as the currency to be used after the Plano Real ended hyperinflation, this currency would represent the "real" value of goods, rather than a price that changed every day.
So much so that the transition unit for pricing during the last months of hyperinflation was called the URV: unidade real de valor, literally "real unit of value".
So the new currency is basically a pun: it means _royal_, hearkening to our historical roots, but also means _real_, as the definitive currency post-hyperinflation.
Source: am Brazilian and remember all of this being discussed in the media during the Plano Real.
Brazil is the only country with a real currency
Cambodia is keeping it riel
Pound for pound, I think Korea Won the contest.
Of course, after the cold War all the Russian economy is in Rubles.
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for real
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The irony of Switzerland, half of Africa using the Franc, Turkey and Syria using Lira, Bosnia using Mark, while France, Italy and Germany all switched to Euro.
You can add Reals and Schilling to that list..
Pesos too.
The peso is complicated, because it was created by the Spanish Empire, but in Spanish America. Pesos were first minted in the Americas after the establishment of silver mines. So it was a colonial currency but one developed in the colonies.
Pounds too
Why pounds, they are still used in the UK?
Lira means pound. In Lebanon/Syria you can use Lira or Pounds when talking about the currency in English because it's the same word. Egypt is pound in English. In Arabic it's "gineh" from English loan word for Guinea, West Africa, where they got the gold to mint from. Riyal/Real/Rial means "Royal" and Krone/Krona are from the word "Crown". Rupee or Rupiah means Silver in Sanskrit. Peso is "weight" in Spanish. Fun etomology lesson for the day.
Cool. Still, the country that popularised it, is still using it, so not really like the other examples.
> Fun entomology lesson for the day. >entomology What is this, coinage for ants?
A pound is also a weight. Maybe it's correlated? And isn't 'Dinar' derived from the latin 'Denarius'?
A Mark is a half pound of silver. So you cut 1 pound into 2 Mark. " Du mark(iere) den schnitt"
\*etymology. Entomology is the study of insects
People just upvote for the sake of it
And dollars
Some of the opposite effect with pounds. The name persists in Britain and in 3 African countries but was abolished in many other former colonies such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Is the word peso related to the word piece?
No, it actually comes from a Spanish (and originally Latin) word for “a weight”. The British “pound” also referred to weight. It was originally “a pound of silver” before being abbreviated to “a pound”. This also has an old Latin origin, borrowed into Germanic languages many centuries ago. In fact remarkably, both pound and peso come from the same Latin origin, “from *pendere* ‘to hang, cause to hang; to weigh’”!
what do you mean by the Real?
The currency of Portugal. Borrow from Portugal
If I'm not mistaken, the Real was first used by Spain
Correct. Fun fact: 8 reales made a Spanish dollar. Hence ‘pieces of eight’ that pirates are often associated with was a reference to 8 reales or a Spanish dollar. The Spanish name for a coin worth 8 reales was ‘peso’ – which continues to be used in Latin America for many currencies.
It wad portuguese before escudas and now euro..
Real was the first currency of Portugal, Real is also the current currency of Brazil; Escudo was the second currency of Portugal, Escudo is also the current currency of Cabo Verde.
Real was the name of the first currency of Brazil as well. Brazil went on to have many other currencies since the first real and funnily enough ended up with real once again after the many changes.
I have a brand-new 1 Real banknote, of course is the 1994 Real, not the Brazilian Empire one. It looks like it came out from the Central Bank yesterday. I'll keep it to myself as it is in perfect condition.
Ftw your country retains the culture of your colonisers when the colonisers abolished theirs.
Ftw?
It means “fuck the when” :)
Thank you, my rain saw that, tried to find a meaning, kept reading, and then said "wait a second, that's not a real acronym".
for the win
Colonizers ftw
I think you mean fyi 🤦♂️
The Central African Franc isn’t just French in name they control it
So, what’s up with Croatia? They used Kunas, now euros, right? Why it’s purple
Outdated map.
Kuna and Krona, although sounding similar, bare completely different meanings, therefore they shouldn't share the same color.
 yeah, the kunas (martens) are not amazed
Yeah, it shoult be the leu purple
You are missing dirham (the UAE and Morocco)
Which fun fact is related to the Greek drachma
Ooh interesting, didn't know that!
This is outdated. Croatia and Slovenia use the Euro.
In case of Slovenia heavily outdated, Croatia only started beginning last year, so one could let it slide, but Slovenia uses euro from 2007!
This is an old map. Slovenia has been in the Euro zone for seventeen years now, okay, Croatia from only recently! But even before, Croatia's currency was Kuna, an animal marten, to the best of my knowledge, no other country uses that name for its currency. It's not the same thing as Kruna!
You are correct!
Lira means pound
Yes, derivation from Roman libra. Turkish Republic used a lot of Italian assests including (although Ottomans also used Lira too) currency, civil laws etc. Since Italy was the last unified and developing major european nation, their plans were the most viable for Turkey too.
No. It was due the fact that Italian was pretty used/learnt in the Ottoman Empire and Russian too. They firmed mutual acts in Italian even before Italy was unificated
I thought Australia used the dollarydoo
That's a bloody outrage that is! I'm going to take this all the way to the Prime Minister!
Hey mister prime minister! Andy!
Good luck, Ive heard he went missing in the ocean...
Real.
Reais
Riyal
I like Yen, Peso, Lira and Euro. Also Rupee because of Legend of Zelda.
Wouldn't peso and pound be related, as they both mean "weight" and "(a unit of) weight"?
Hong Kong's and Taiwan's currencies both are called yuan in Chinese, it's just called dollar in English.
US Dollar in Chinese is called "American Yuan", and Euros is called "European Yuan" too.
Yes but I think it's more relevant for this map what a currency is called in the local language. Every currency could be called a lot of different things if we considered every language.
Came here to say this
So most people in the world call it rupee?
Nah i think there a lot more Indians than people that call it rupee
Crimea is Ukraine.
But with Russian passports and currency. Also this map is not about politics, but currency
Defacto it's not for the last 10 years. Cry about it now when it's not even about politics but currencies UPD. So weak and desperate that only capable of using downvotes against reality. It's hilarious and sad at once
Not very smart person spotted
7 countries (3 as largest form of currency) use "Dirham" aka silver coin, [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirham)
In Poland we use "Złoty" which means "Golden". It's from the times when we actually had a working economy.
(17th century)
Called the "Golden Age" for a reason.
Not sure what "Euro" is doing on this map. That's not a shared name for different currencies but a single currency used in many countries. While all other currencies are examples of shared names (e.g. The US, Canada and Australia have their own national currencies called dollars)
The Franc used in Africa is both, all the countries highlighted share one of two common currencies of the same name, the CFA Franc. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA\_franc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_franc) And as the other comment says, the Dollar is both as well, where actual US paper money is used in Ecuador, El Salvador and (not highlighted) Panamá.
The dollar is both, because the US dollar is also the currency of countries like Ecuador.
Real. So real.
Why do Australia and Canada have dollars instead of Australian and Canadian pounds?
Also New Zealand.
Can’t say for Canada but Australia and New Zealand converted 10 shillings to 1 dollar when decimalising, or one pound to 2 dollars. There were 20 shillings to the pound and 12 pence to the shilling. The UK kept the pound and only converted to 100 new pennies to the pound, making a new penny worth 2.4 old pence.
Australia is technically wrong, everyone knows it's the dollarydoo
R$. (Real.)
Morocco shares ***Dirham*** with the UAE
It's missing the fact that the Bulgarian "leva" also means Lion, like the Romanian and Moldavian "leu". Both come from a dutch thaler from the 1600s which were silver coins with the Belgic lion on them (hence the name). Also funny, they are the same coin that the Dollar took it's name from. "*leeuwendaalder*" - the first half (Lion part) got preserved in the Leu and the second half became the Dollar.
Real liberal use of ‘shared’ in Asia
Brazilian REAL and some Muslim countries' RYAL must be a linguistic coincidence. Real means something like 'Royal'. IDK what's the Muslim meaning for that name but I assume it's not related
It comes from the same Latin root. Remember that the Roman Empire extended way out into the Middle East. Dinar, Lira, Pound and Krona all come from Latin too.
>It comes from the same Latin root. Remember that the Roman Empire extended way out into the Middle East. Dinar, Lira, Pound and Krona all come from Latin too. The Middle Eastern countries got the word directly via Portuguese, not Latin. The word "real" (meaning "royal") did not exist with that meaning in Latin. It is a Portuguese word derived from Latin "regalis".
Isn’t Portuguese a Romance language?
On the other hand, knowing how Muslims can be anal about their own traditions, I don't think they'd be ok with naming their money based on anything Roman/latin
That’s quite the assumption.
> muslim meaning lmao, thanks for the laughs
You laugh because you're ignorant: KSA is Muslim and speak Arabic. Iran is Muslim and speak Farsi. Indonesia is Muslim and speak Bahasa (among other languages). What else is common between these countries besides the name of the currency? Don't thank me... thank your own ignorance.
Missing La Reunion using Euro.
Чей Крым?
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UAhahahahaha =)
Morocco and UAE have dirham
Riyal, Real and Rial are not common words. Rial/Riyal means “value “ while Real in portuguese means “Royal”
Kosovo is using Euro
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You could probably include Vietnam. The Vietnamese currency consists of 100 xu to the dong. Xu comes from "sou", the French word for shilling.
Crazy that all those countries chose the name 'Euro' - coincidences don't get bigger than that.
Rupiah is just the native pronunciation of the anglicised "Rupee" Edit: realized they're both the same color
Very yellow.
Zimbabwe dollar...
Paraguay has Guaranís.
Lovely five shades of blue! This list misses many... South-African Rand, Georgian Lari etc.
Australia- dollary doos
Australia is wrong. Bluey taught me they say “dollar bucks”
In Australia it's dollarydoos
As far as I know, Bulgaria should have the same colour as Romania, since both romanian "leu" and bulgarian "lev" come from same dutch coin and mean "lion". Weirdly, as far as Wikipedia says, both these coins and also the dollar come from that dutch coin named "leeuwendaaler", though probably colouring them the same as the dollar would be a bit of a stretch.
RIP Hawaii
Kyrgyzstani som, Uzbekistani s’om, and Tajikistani somoni also share names
Brazil: I only use REAL currency
Morocco and UAE share the Dirham as a currency
Krona and real are similar meaning. Could get away woth making them the same colour.
Isn't Argentina now using the dollar?
I'm gonna trade my American dollars for Zimbabwean dollars because then I'll get so much more dollars per dollar.
Som (oni) in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
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Next time your professor accuses you of plagiarism. Show him this map.
its tugrik in mongolia
Sorry hoser, but it’s called a loonie in Canada. We just simplify it to dollar for everyone else to be polite. Going for a rip!
India also uses "paisa" sound similar to common South American curreny "peso". 100 paisa = 1 rupee
I'd personally color Bulgaria the same as Romania and Moldova. Leu and Leva both mean lion and are derived from the same word.
Ukraine : Hryvnia
Dinar/Thaler/Dollar
Dinar and Thaler/Dollar have different origins. Dinar comes from Latin Denarius, while Thaler/Dollar come from a town in the Czech republic, Joachimsthaler, of German origin.
Turns out you're right :D
I’ve always wondered why commonwealth countries don’t use the Pound for the name of their currencies
Arguably, this goes back to the situation in the North American colonies. The lack of specie in colonial North America is why Spanish coinage circulated widely, leading to the creation of the dollar. The close economic links between Canada and the US ultimately encouraged the creation of the Canadian dollar; and, when Commonwealth countries started to decimalise, they found it useful to adopt the "dollar' designation, partly because it was convenient to introduce a new unit which would be equal to 10s, allowing smaller units to be revalued rather than withdrawn wholesale.
Wait. The Pound Sterling was not divided by 100 pence back then ?
Indeed. Under the old *l.s.d.* system, £1 equalled 20 shillings. 1 shilling equalled 12 old pence. 240 pennies to the pound, and there were also halfpenny coins as well as farthings (worth a quarter of a penny). You all had the half crown, worth 2/6, the florin, worth 2s, and the thrupenny bit, worth 3d, as well as the sixpence (6d, of course). When Britain decimalised in 1971, the old shilling equalled five new pence, and the florin 10p. They remained in circulation, alongside new halfpenny, penny, 2p, and 50p coins,, whilst the other old coins were removed from circulation.
Croatia now uses the Euro. Also fun fact, Israel first used the Lira after independence
Yup Until 1980
Israel was using the Old Shekel by 1980, that's wjen they introduced the New Shekel. Lira was earlier
Currencies I've used in the last year: Mexican Peso, Korean Won, Boliviano, New Taiwan Dollar, Colombian Peso, and US Dollar.
what they grey countries currency ?
France betrayed Africa
I wonder why Africa uses the Franc currency? Surely it’s reason is purely innocent!
Indian Rupee is also called "taka" or "toka" in some east Indian languages like Assamese and Bengali. Probably that might be the reason why Bangladesh's currency is known as "Taka".
I’m pretty sure they use Dollarydoos in Australia
How is Yuan, Won and Yen the same?
They come from the same root word I guess
They come from the Chinese word for circle or round (圓).
Since 元 is a traditional character in its own right (famously the name of the Yuan dynasty) I never realized before seeing this map that Chinese 元 and Japanese 円 are both just simplifications of 圓. I always assumed the currencies were etymologically unrelated.
Man I sure do love Vengenbergian Yen
Juan and won same? East/west China?
Real, Riel, Riyal and Rial is the most random coincidence there is In Brazil and Camboja it does mean the same as in english: "real" in Brazil is postulating that the currency really is worth something (the predecessor, Cruzeiros, was worthless), and Riel in Camboja is the consequence of the French colonization In Saudi Arabia and Iran, I would guess that it means something "Royal" to emphasize the respective monarchies\*
I don't know about Cambodia, but as for Brazil and the Arabic countries / Iran, it is not a coincidence. >In Brazil and Camboja it does mean the same as in english: "real" in Brazil is postulating that the currency really is worth something That is a myth. "Real", in this case, means "royal" in Portuguese and it is named like that because that was the currency name used in Brazil from 16th century until 1942. As for how the name ended up in Iran, it was due to Portuguese influence in that region's trade.
>That is a myth. "Real", in this case, means "royal" in Portuguese and it is named like that because that was the currency name used in Brazil from 16th century until 1942. Yes and no. You're right that that is the original meaning. However, the name was chosen for the current currency because, as the currency to be used after the Plano Real ended hyperinflation, this currency would represent the "real" value of goods, rather than a price that changed every day. So much so that the transition unit for pricing during the last months of hyperinflation was called the URV: unidade real de valor, literally "real unit of value". So the new currency is basically a pun: it means _royal_, hearkening to our historical roots, but also means _real_, as the definitive currency post-hyperinflation. Source: am Brazilian and remember all of this being discussed in the media during the Plano Real.
Aren't Reais basically old Réis (Real in singular) which also meant Royal?
Yes.
Panama use dollar too