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  • Thumbnail for Gold franc
    The gold franc (currency code: XFO) was the unit of account for the Bank for International Settlements from 1930 until April 1, 2003. It was replaced with...
    5 KB (548 words) - 08:27, 18 March 2024
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    1998 and 2002, the conversion of francs to euros was carried out at a rate of 6.55957 francs to 1 euro. The French Franc traces its origins to the Carolingian...
    68 KB (6,462 words) - 20:40, 23 March 2024
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    worth 1.7 French francs and then from 1948, 2 francs (from 1960: 0.02 new franc) but after January 1994 worth only 0.01 French franc. Therefore, from...
    12 KB (1,199 words) - 15:56, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gold standard
    went outside the "gold points" (in the example above, cases existed of the pound climbing above 25.42 francs or falling below 25.02 francs). Central banks...
    132 KB (16,262 words) - 00:57, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coins of the Swiss franc
    denominations of 5 centimes, 10 centimes, 20 centimes, 1⁄2 franc (50 centimes), 1 franc, 2 francs, and 5 francs. All coins have the legend of either Helvetia or...
    34 KB (3,837 words) - 11:53, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swiss franc
    400 rappen (4 old francs) or 5-franc coins of 350 rappen, one computes at 7 old francs to 10 new francs. Hence CHF 40 = 28 old francs = 7 kronenthalers...
    68 KB (6,298 words) - 13:14, 25 May 2024
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    and 20 francs were introduced in 1930 and 1931, respectively, followed by silver 20 francs in 1933 and 50 francs in 1939. In 1938 the 5 franc was reduced...
    23 KB (2,216 words) - 12:50, 30 May 2024
  • required that the largest silver coin of 5 francs be struck 0.900 fine and the fractional silver of 2 francs, 1 franc, 50 centimes and 20 centimes all be struck...
    25 KB (2,515 words) - 15:31, 25 April 2024
  • no longer used. In April 2024, 2,800 francs was equivalent to US$1. Currency denominated in centimes and francs (called frank in Dutch) was first introduced...
    17 KB (1,376 words) - 14:40, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Albanian Kingdom (1928–1939)
    crisis of 1929–1933, Zog asked the Italians for a loan of 100 million gold francs in 1931, and the request was approved by the Royal Italian Government...
    32 KB (4,045 words) - 20:57, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Albanian lek
    The lek's conversion to gold was guaranteed and the issue of gold francs was limited to three million units. Due to the gold standard, up until 1939,...
    28 KB (1,932 words) - 21:18, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for West African CFA franc
    par the CFA franc with its own franc in 1961. In 1973, Mauritania replaced the CFA franc with the ouguiya at a rate of 1 ouguiya = 5 francs. Mali readopted...
    21 KB (1,772 words) - 00:36, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monte Carlo Casino
    knew Garnier because Blanc had provided a loan of at least 4.9 million gold francs to the cash-strapped government of the French Third Republic so that...
    17 KB (1,892 words) - 08:57, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monégasque franc
    and 50 francs and cupro-nickel 100 francs were issued, with the size of the 100 francs reduced to match the French coin in 1956. When the franc was revalued...
    12 KB (598 words) - 16:26, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for War reparations
    billion gold francs (90 million pounds) to the Entente, according to the Treaty of Neuilly. Germany agreed to pay reparations of 132 billion gold marks...
    23 KB (2,664 words) - 23:41, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jaquet-Droz automata
    Archeology society of Neuchâtel eventually bought them in 1906, for 75,000 gold francs, and gave them to the museum. The musician is modelled as a female organ...
    4 KB (508 words) - 12:44, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Panama scandals
    approximately 1.8 billion gold Francs. From the nine stock issues, the Panama Canal Company received 1.2 billion gold Francs, 960 million of which were...
    8 KB (937 words) - 20:27, 29 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rodolphe Lindt
    Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG since. Sprüngli paid 1.5 million Gold francs for the marketing rights and the recipe. Hans Rudolf Schmid (1985), "Lindt...
    5 KB (506 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2024
  • ceded the company to the businessman François Blanc for 1.7 million gold francs for the privilege of exploiting the monopoly on gambling in the Principality...
    11 KB (1,197 words) - 08:36, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palais Garnier
    and chased by Lacarière, Delatour & Cie. The total cost came to 30,000 gold francs. The use of a central chandelier aroused controversy, and it was criticised...
    67 KB (7,737 words) - 09:46, 29 May 2024
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