HIGHEST VALUED CURRENCY UNIT

The 'highest valued currency unit' is the currency in which a single unit buys the highest number of any given other currency or the largest amount of a given good. Most commonly the calculation is made against a major reserve currency such as the euro (EUR), the pound sterling (GBP) or the United States dollar (USD).

Contents

List of highest valued currency units

Mathematical details

See also

List of highest valued currency units

As of June 2007^[1]

No.	State	Currency	Code	Euros Euros−1	US dollars US dollars−1	Kuwaiti dinars Kuwaiti dinars−1	Highest valued coin	Highest valued banknote
1.		dinar Scheduled to establish GCC common currency in 2010.	KWD	2.56456 0.389930	3.47102 ''0.288100''	1	.100	20
2.		lira Scheduled to join the euro on 2008-01-01.	MTL	2.32937 '0.429300' Currency peg.	3.15270 0.317188	0.908293 1.10097	1	20
3.		dinar	BHD	1.96503 0.508899	2.65957 '0.376000'	0.766223 1.305102	.500	20
4.		rial	OMR	1.92160 0.520399	'2.60080' 0.384497	0.749290 1.33460	.500	50
5.		pound	CYP	1.70871 0.585235	2.31267 ''0.432401''	0.666280 1.50087	.50	20
6.		pound [2]	GBP	1.48369 0.673993	2.00811 ''0.497980''	0.578537 1.72850	5 (commem.) 2 (common)	50 (Eng & Wal) 100 (Sco & NI)
		pound	FKP				2	50
		pound	GIP				2	50
		pound	GGP Commonly used unofficial non-ISO 4217 codes				2	50
		pound	JEP				2 (rarely used) .50 (common)	50
		pound	IMP				2	50
		pound	SHP				2	20
7.		lats Scheduled to join the euro.	LVL	1.42287 '0.702804'	1.92579 0.519267	0.554821 1.8024	2	500
	IMF	Special Drawing Rights	XDR	1.12170 0.891500	1.51818 ''0.658685''	0.437387 2.28631
8.		dinar	JOD	1.04210 0.959599	1.41044 '0.709000'	0.406347 2.460953	1	50
9.		euro	EUR	1	1.3535 ''0.78850''	0.389930 2.56456	2	500
10.		dollar	KYD	0.906569 1.10306	'1.22700' 0.814996	0.353499 2.82886	.25	100
11.		manat	AZN	0.862538 1.15937	1.16741 ''0.856600''	0.336565 2.97119	.50	100
12.		cedi	GHS	.798475 1.25239	1.08070 ''0.925325''	.311350 3.21182	1	50
13.		convertible peso	CUC	0.797958 1.25320	'1.08000' 0.925926	0.311148 3.21390	5 (rare) 1 (common)	100
14.		dollar	USD	0.738850 1.35345	1	0.288100 3.47102	1 (rare) .25 (common)	100
		dollar	BSD		'1'		2 (rare) .25 (common)	100
		dollar	BMD				1	100
		balboa	PAB				.50	--

1. Floating exchange rate data taken from www.xe.com on June 4, 2007.
2. The highest-valued currency unit of any OECD member-state.

Mathematical details

★ Bold values are defined pegged rate by various authorities

★ Italic values are exchange rate data obtained from xe.com

★ All other exchange rate cells are derived by multiplications and divisions from the bold or italic values

See also

★ Least valued currency unit

★ Denomination (currency)