Pound sterling   All frequently used coins except the £2 coin (coins shown are those after the extensive 2008 redesign).   Official user(s): United Kingdom     , Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey. Subunit  1/100   penny Symbol: £   ;     penny -           p Plural     :           pounds ; penny - pence Coins:    Freq. used       1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2 Rarely used       3p, 4p, 25p, £5, £500 (Silver Kilo), £1,000 (Gold Kilo) Banknotes:        Freq. used       £5, £10, £20, £50    Peso The word peso (meaning weight in Spanish) was the name of a coin that originated in Spain and became of immense importance internationally. Peso is now the name of the monetary unit of several former Spanish colonies. Franc The franc (₣) is the name of several currency units. The French franc was the former currency of France until the euro was adopted in 1999. The Swiss franc is a major world currency today due to the prominence of Swiss financial institutions. The countries that use francs include Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and most of the Francophone countries of Africa.     Escudo     Portuguese coin of 1 escudo, 1987 The escudo is a unit of currency. Historically it was used in Spain, Portugal, and in their colonies in South America, Asia, and Africa. It is still used in Cape Verde to this day. Escudo is Portuguese and Spanish for «shield».     Lira (plural lire) is the name of the monetary unit of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino and the Vatican City, all of which replaced it in 2002 with the euro, and of Israel, which replaced it with the old shekel in 1980. The term originates from the value of a Troy pound (Latin libra) of high purity silver. The libra was the basis of the monetary system of the Roman Empire. Dinar The history of the dinar dates to the gold dinar, an early Islamic coin corresponding to the Byzantine denarius auri. The modern gold dinar is a modern bullion gold coin. Countries currently using a currency called »dinar»: Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya            , Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisi.       Japanese yen Banknotes                     Coins User(s)   Japan Symbol  ¥  (international);  円  (Japan—present day);  圓  (Japan—traditional) Coins     ¥1, ¥5, ¥10, ¥50, ¥100, ¥500 Banknotes         ¥1000, ¥2000, ¥5000, ¥10,000 The Japanese yen ( symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro. It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U.S. dollar, the euro, and the pound sterling.   The ruble or rouble (/ˈruːbəl/; Russian: рубль, IPA: [rublʲ]) (RUB) is a unit of currency of various countries in Eastern Europe and is closely associated with the economy of Russia. Currently, the currency units of Belarus, Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria, and, in the past, the currency units of several other countries, notably countries influenced by Russia and the Soviet Union, are named rubles, though they all are different currencies. One ruble is divided into 100 kopecks (Russian: копе́йка, tr. kopeyka, IPA: [kɐˈpʲejkə]). The krona (plural: kronor; sign: kr; code: SEK) has been the currency of Sweden since 1873. Both the ISO code «SEK» and currency sign «kr» are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it, but especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value. In English, the currency is sometimes referred to as the Swedish crown, since krona literally means crown in Swedish. The Swedish krona was the 9th most traded currency in the world by value in April 2010. Coins:  Freq. used       1 kr, 5 kr, 10 kr;  Rarely used            2 kr   Dollar   A United States two-dollar bill. Rarely seen in circulation, but still in production and legal tender. Dollar (often represented by the peso and dollar sign $) is the name of several currencies, including those of Australia, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Hong Kong, Namibia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States, and previously Zimbabwe.    The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union and is the official currency of the eurozone, which consists of 18 of the 28 member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.