Talk:Highest valued currency unit

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is it general practice to use EUR instead of $ in the table ? I do not object to it, i'm just curious if this shift in "world currency" is really happening....

Me too. :) MMad 03:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Euro/KYD

Im not sure where the original source for this article is from, but it appears that the Euro is currently higher in value than the KYD at the moment. According to yahoo finance, 1 Euro is worth 1.099 Cayman Island Dollars. -Zer0fighta 23:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's higher in value in the table, too; it's listed because it's worth more than one dollar. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 10:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Table of Highest value banknote

I suggest this section is expanded to include a table of "Highest value banknote".

You use this term to mean The highest numerical value banknote of that currency (the column on your table). It could also be taken to mean the banknote (of any currency) with the highest monetary value. I.e. a table of "most valuable" banknotes in the world in normal circulation.

In which case the 1000 Swiss Frank note (not on your list, approx 650 Euros) would be above the 500 Euro note. The 20 Kuwaiti dinar note (= 53.93 Euros) would be way down the list, below the 100 US Dollar (= 77.98 Euros).

A similar table is also possible "Highest value coin". TiffaF 14:07, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I can see your concern. I would like to take up the responsibility. But I'm on wiki break now. Btw, the largest non-commemorative banknote is 10000 Singapore/Brunei dollars, then 500 Latvian Lats. --Chochopk 22:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Why does this only go up to 12? Twenty or ten would be a more logical number. – Zntrip 04:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
The threshold is set to the lower value of USD and EUR. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 11:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swiss Franc

The Swiss Franc is missing from this list. (It has a higher value than the Euro, and the US Dollar) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.212.54.84 (talk • contribs) 05:22, 13 March 2007

As of right now, xe.com says that 1 USD is worth 1.22536 Swiss Francs. That makes it worth less than a US dollar. Nik42 07:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monthly update

This table should at least be updated monthly so that it can keep track of currencies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.45.57.38 (talk) 21:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

Yeah, it probably should. The least valued currency unit page is updated rather more frequently than that. Of course, that also contains a number of currencies with high rates of inflation, most notably the Zimbabwean dollar Nik42 22:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why did I revert to the old structure?

The reason why I included both 1 USD = x units and 1 unit = x USD was because the pegged rates of various currencies are defined differently. For example, Bahraini dinar is defined as 1 USD = 0.376 dinar, while Omani rial is defined as 1 rial = 2.6008 USD. 1 / 0.376 = 2.65957446808511.... At 6 significant digit, BHD's valued in USD may be rounded to 2.65 957. But this rounding introduces a loss of accuracy, and it also loses the direction how BHD is pegged. If I had a 1 billion BHD, that could be converted to 2,659,574,468.09 USD (because the smallest unit in USD is 1 cent) without any transaction charge, it wouldn't be 2,659,570,000 USD. This may not be a problem with floating currencies, because the rate changes all the time. But this list contains many pegged currencies, which makes the direction of peg important. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian dollar

Since the Loonie is approaching parity with the USD, should it be included on the list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Einsteinboricua (talk • contribs) 19:27, 4 June 2007

At the moment, no. However, it closed at 99.87 US cents today, and will probably continue rising, in which case, it will be added. Nik42 05:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
As of today (13 Nov) the CAD is worth more than the USD, at 1.03743 USD/CAD. Rossenglish 20:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, which is why it was added a month or so ago. Nik42 01:16, 14 November 2007 (UTC) Why has it since been removed? It has been flirting with pairity for months, is currently almost 2 cents above parity, and has been sitting above 98 cents US since it broke parity.

[edit] Currency is in table, "given good" is not

In addition to demonstrating a "unit buy[ing] ... any given other currency", which is already accopmplished, why not, in order to demonstrate "a ... unit buys ... [an] amount of a given good", which is missing, include a column for gold's spot price in the currency? Or oil, or porkbellies, or whatever sufficiently global commodity satisfies all parties, in case gold is not regarded as a "good" by all concerned. 76.247.45.98 23:47, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Highest valued coin

According to the Bank of Latvia official site[1], the highest valued Latvian Lat coin is 100 Ls, even though I have never seen it and don't know anybody who has. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.226.4.69 (talk) 12:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image "International Monetary Fund logo.svg"

Can the image "International Monetary Fund logo.svg" be used in the Article "Highest valued currency unit"? --88.78.237.210 (talk) 13:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian dollar and Swiss Franc

The Canadian dollar has now been worth more than the US Dollar for a few weeks. However the situation is not completely stable, with the exchange rate hovering around 1:1. Nevertheless : Shouldn't the Canadian dollar replace the US dollar on the list ? Or should it be extended to 13 currencies for the time being ? 19:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I'll add the CAD for now. If the USD gains value significantly again, it should be removed again. Passportguy (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

The same also applies to the Swiss Franc (CHF) Karl (talk) 10:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ghana

Ghana should be on the list. Örsvezér (talk) 10:02, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

It used to be. Exchange rate fluctuations periodically put it (and also the Canadian dollar) below the USD, so the Ghana cedi and the Canadian dollar are periodically removed and restored. It looks like the swiss franc will be on this list soon, too. Right now it's about 97.5 US cents Nik42 (talk) 21:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Why is the US$ used a the low reference for the list? Wouldn't it be better to inclue a fixed number of currencies, the 10,15 or 20 highest for expamle? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.132.3.9 (talk) 01:13, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
It makes for a convenient standard. The least valued currency unit uses a similar standard - currencies that US$1 is worth 1,000 or more of (or nearly 1,000 in the case of the South Korean won). Nik42 (talk) 05:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] United States dollar

What is the highest valued banknote of the United States dollar: a) 100 dollars; b) 500 dollars; c) 1000 dollars; d) 5000 dollars; e) 10,000 dollars; or f) 100,000 dollars? --88.77.233.159 (talk) 15:52, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

In current production, $100. Notes above $100 have not been printed in many decades. They were removed from circulation in the 70's, by order of President Nixon, but they'd been out of production for quite a while before then. Nik42 (talk) 22:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More Currencies

Should we have more currencies eg. GBP CHF AUD ($10000000000ten0one1)07:40, 22 may 2008

Perhaps a list of currencies that were at some time greater than one USD in value. It would include Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Swiss Franc and Russian Rouble. Karl (talk) 09:05, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree that we should add some, especially those that are almost at par with the USD and thus constantly get added and then deleted again, because they dip below par for a few days. The Russian ruble hasn't been worth a dollar or more since communist times, and is now valued at around 25 to the dollar, so I don't think it should be included in a list of the "Highest valued" currencies.
In order to keep this list more steady, I'd propose to add a currency when its value is equal or higher than par to the USD and removing it only when its value falls below 1.05 (or 1.10 ??)units to the Dollar.
Currently, according to coinmill at [2], the following currencies could/should be added :

Passportguy (talk) 11:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I think the article should contain historical information and so could mention any currency unit that once had a high value, even if today's value is small (e.g. Russian ruble or Japanese Yen). This historical information need not be in the main table. Karl (talk) 08:39, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

That is perfectly fine. It would be quite interesting to have a historical section with previous high valued currencies. Passportguy (talk) 23:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More currencies to make calcluations against

Should we have more currencies to make calculations against. $10000000000ten0one1 08:13 23 may 2008

No. Noone has time to do all the math and most of the rates are terribly outdated because the task of updating them is so daunting. In fact I would propose that we even consider tremoving the cross rates for Kuwait Dinars as well, as it is only of very limited interest to most users. Passportguy (talk) 22:56, 23 May 2008 (UTC)