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unusual facts about US dollar



Sepala Ekanayake

He wanted to have his wife and son brought to the Bangkok airport and 300,000 US dollars.

Solomon Islands dollar

Examples of dollars that are directly related to the original Spanish dollar unit are the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Newfoundland dollar, the East Caribbean dollar, the Belize dollar, the Guyanese dollar, the Bermuda dollar, the Bahamian dollar, the Trinidad and Tobago dollar, the Barbados dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Straits dollar, the Malayan dollar, the Singapore dollar, and the Brunei dollar.


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B yen

An announcement was made by the office of Lt. Gen. Donald Prentice Booth (High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands and Commanding General of the U.S. Army on the Islands), and as of September 16, 1958, the B yen was replaced with the US dollar, at an exchange rate of 120 B yen to the dollar.

Canada–Grenada relations

In the early 1980s, the Canadian government contributed six million US dollar for the contraction of the Point Salines International, as today known as the Maurice Bishop International Airport.

De facto currency

Iraq - American commercial, governmental and military involvement due to the Iraq War and the Iraqi Dinar's low value has made the US dollar highly preferred.

Exorbitant privilege

The phrase became the title of a 2010 book by economist Barry Eichengreen, examining the future prospects for the US dollar's dominance in international trade.

Frederik Paulsen Jr

Most recently, Ferring made multi-million US dollar donations to the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan which will be used to fund the creation and development of a new cultural centre in the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu, as well as to support the country's weavers, a role traditionally performed by women.

Grenada–Libya relations

In 1982, at the time, Mr Bishop wrote a letter to the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, if it possible to borrowed six million US dollar as a soft loan to complete the runway at Point Salines International Airport, (today known as, Maurice Bishop International Airport).

International status and usage of the euro

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave his opinion in September 2007 that the euro could indeed replace the US dollar as the world's primary reserve currency.

In October 2012, the President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli suggested that he was considering making the euro an official currency of the country to go along with the US dollar.

Jinja, Uganda

The average annual household income is estimated at US $100.

Leah Rabin

Yitzhak became Prime Minister in 1974 following Golda Meir's resignation, but in 1977 a US Dollar bank account (illegal at that time in Israel) held by Leah was exposed by Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit.