A currency union is where two or more states share the same currency, though without there necessarily having any further integration as would be characterised by an Economic and Monetary Union, which involves economic integration to the point of a single market.
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Examples of existing unions
Proposed unions
Previous unions
See also: Bretton Woods Conference
- between Bahrain and Abu Dhabi using the Bahraini dinar
- between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the Trucial States, using the Gulf rupee from 1959 until 1966
- between Aden and South Arabia, Bahrain, Kenya, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, British Somaliland, the Trucial States, Uganda, Zanzibar and British India (later independent India) using the Indian rupee
- Belgium-Luxembourg Monetary Union (1922-2002), superseded by the European EMU
- between British India and the Straits Settlements (1837-1867) using the Indian rupee
- between Czech Republic and Slovakia (briefly from January 1, 1993 to February 8, 1993) using the Czechoslovak koruna
- between Ethiopia and Eritrea using the Ethiopian birr
- between France, Monaco, and Andorra using the French franc
- between the Eastern Caribbean, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and British Guiana using the Eastern Caribbean dollar
- between Italy, Vatican City, and San Marino using the Italian lira
- between Ireland, and the United Kingdom using the Pound Sterling (Ireland used its own coins/banknotes of equivalent value) dissolved in 1979 when Ireland joined the European Monetary System without Britain
- between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands using the Jamaican pound and later Jamaican dollar
- between Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar using the East African rupee
- between Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar (and later Tanganyika) using the East African florin
- between Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (later merged as Tanzania), Uganda, South Arabia, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland using the East African shilling
- Latin Monetary Union (1865-1927), initially between France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, and later involving Greece, Spain and other countries.
- between Liberia and the United States using the United States dollar
- between Mauritius and Seychelles using the Mauritian rupee
- between Nigeria, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Liberia using the British West African pound
- North German thaler (basically the Prussian thaler)
- Ruble zone countries
- between Qatar and all the emirates of the UAE, except Abu Dhabi using the Qatari and Dubai riyal
- between Saudi Arabia and Qatar using the Saudi riyal
- between Samoa and New Zealand using the New Zealand pound
- between Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the Scandinavian Monetary Union
- between the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia using the Australian dollar
- South German guilder
- between Spain and Andorra using the Spanish peseta
- between Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore - 1953-1967
- between South Africa and Botswana, using the South African rand from 1966 until 1976
- between Egypt and Sudan using the Egyptian pound - until 1956
- between West Germany and East Germany between 1 July 1990 and 3 October 1990, as part of a temporary Monetary, Economic and Social Union prior to German reunification.
- proposed Pan-American monetary union - abandoned in the form proposed by Argentina
- proposed monetary union between the United Kingdom and Norway using the pound sterling during the late 1940s and early 1950s
References
- ^ To all intents and purposes a monetary union. They are the last two nations whose dollars have remained at par and mutually interchangeable since the days when the Spanish Dollar was the united currency of large areas of the New World and South East Asia.
- ^ alongside the ngultrum
- ^ Not official, but freely used as a tender in Nepal, due to primarily the economic flux with India and also the instability caused by that country's civil war.
- ^ Alongside the Panamanian balboa
- ^ Proposed by Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on December 15, 2007
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